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Saint-Evremond, in a letter to the Duke d'Olonne, speaks of the
sentiment which is incentive to piety:
"There are some whom misfortunes have rendered devout through a
certain kind of pity for themselves, a secret piety, strong enough to
dispose men to lead more religious lives."
Scarron, one of Ninon's closest friends, in his Epistle to Sarrazin,
thus alludes to this conventual escapade:
"Puis j'aurais su * * *
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Ce que l'on dit du bel et saint exemple
Que la Ninon donne a tous les mondains,
En se logeant avecque les nonais,
Combien de pleurs la pauvre jouvencelle
A repandus quand sa mere, sans elle,
Cierges brulants et portant ecussons,
Pretres chantant leurs funebres chanson,
Voulut aller de linge enveloppee
Servir aux vers d'une franche lippee."
Which, translated into reasonable English, is as much as saying:
But I might have known * * *
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What they say of the example, so holy, so pure,
That Ninon gives to worldlings all,
By dwelling within a nunnery's wall.


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