Marie de France, a poetess and fabulist of Henry III.'s time; her fables are translations into French from an English version of old Greek tales; a greater work was her “Laïs,” consisting of 12 or 14 beautiful narratives in French verse.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Marie Antoinette * Marie de' Medici