Born: 1672, France
Died: 1729
Country most active: France
Also known as: Martha de Caylus, Marthe-Marguerite Le Valois de Villette de Mursay Marquise de Caylus
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Martha Marguerite, Marquis de Caylus, a French woman of fashion, one of the brilliant wits and social leaders of the court of Louis XIV.
Her famous Souvenirs with notes and a preface were edited in 1770 by Voltaire who regarded them as masterpieces of candor and wit; and Sainte-Beuve assigned her to a distinguished place in his Portraits of Celebrated Women.