Ninon de Lenclos

Ninon de Lenclos (1620 - 1705) was a woman celebrated for wit and beauty, born in Paris, whose salon in the city was frequented by all the notable personages of the period. She was a woman of superior mental endowments as well as polished manners, but of loose morality and want of heart.

Wisdom & Quotes

• La vieillesse est l'enfer des femmes.

(Old age is woman's hell.)
- attributed

• It requires far more genius to make love than to command armies.

- ascribed

Jean de La Fontaine