C. Agnès Sorel (or Surelle, also spelt Sorean

.'')0). A nolile maicluii iiot less eelcbrated for tlio ([ualities of lier lieart ami iniiul than for lier Ijeauty ; lier iuHuence over Charles VII. was ahvays ^\■ell used, and Charles VII.'s queen had for lier a .sincère affection. Charles VII. 's son (Louis XI.) is accused of having had lier poisoned ; she is called ' la dame de Beauté,' from the naine of an estate given to lier by Charles VII.