"Duc de Sully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... powers, unspoiled simplicity, frankness and generosity are extolled by that quaint historian of the opera, Dury de Noinville. On her retirement from the stage, in 1697, the king awarded her a pension of 1,000 livres in token of appreciation, and to this the Duc de Sully added 500 livres. She died in Paris in the seventieth year of her age, her home having long been the resort of eminent artists ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore |
