"The owning of faults is no hard matter for persons that find a fund within themselves to mend them. ."
About Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, who on her marriage became Madame de Lambert, Marquise de Saint-Bris, and is generally known as the Marquise de Lambert, was a French writer and salonnière.
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