Marie de Miramion

Left a widower with five small children, her father deemed it prudent to join the household of his brother, M. de Bonneau, Seigneur of Plessis and Valmar.

The following August, Marie, accompanied by her mother-in-law and attendants, were waylaid en route by individuals in the employ of a would-be suitor.

[3] Her daughter was put to board at the convent of the Visitation, on the Rue de St. Antoine, where Marie also lived for part of the year.

[2] It was not unusual at that time, for ladies to retire for weeks or even months to religious houses to practice prayer and enjoy a period of pious solitude.

[3] In 1649, Marie made a vow of chastity following a retreat at the motherhouse of the Filles de la Charite and took up the life of a lay devote.