Jeanne de Laval (10 November 1433 – 19 December 1498) was the second wife and queen consort of René I of Anjou, King of Naples, Sicily, titular King of Jerusalem, Aragon, and Majorca; Duke of Anjou, Bar, and Lorraine; and Count of Provence and Piedmont. She was the stepmother of Margaret of Anjou, queen consort of King Henry VI of England.
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“... tyrants deserve to be the victims of tyrants.”
—Jeanne De Hericourt (1809–1875)
“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)