"Les contes ingenus quoique remplis d'addresse Qu'ont inventés les
Troubadours."
For to this she is specially invited in the verses at the end of the
prose story of _L'Adroite Princesse_, which is dedicated to her, and
attributed to Perrault. It has been shown, however, that if that
version of _L'Adroite Princesse_ were really written by him, it was not
published till 1742, thirty-nine years after the death of the reputed
author, and twenty-six after the death of the lady to whom it is
dedicated.