LENCLOS, Anne, or familiarly Ninon de, a celebrated female voluptuary, was born, in 1616, at Paris, and died in 1706. She was beautiful; and so highly accomplished, and of such elegant manners, that her society was courted by all the distinguished characters of that age; but she held chastity in utter contempt, and for constancy she had as little respect. Her charms she is generally said to have retained in extreme old age; but this is denied by Voltaire.
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