Mediaeval Muses

1. Agnès Sorel
2. Lisa del Giocondo
3. Mme. De Rambouillet
4. Madeleine de Scudéry
5. Antoinette du Ligier
6. Marie-Louise O'Murphy
7. Delphine de Girardin
8. Marie Duplessis
9. Blanche d'Antigny
10. Apollonie Sabatier

Many Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the eighteenth century including a famous Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris called Les Neuf Soeurs which was attended by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Danton and other influential Enlightenment figures.

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