Léonor de Montaigne

when winning or losing against my wife and daughter, ’tis indifferent to me, as when I play in good earnest with others, for round sums.

I practised the same method with my children, who all of them died at nurse, except Léonor, my only daughter, and who arrived to the age of five years and upward without other correction for her childish faults (her mother’s indulgence easily concurring) than words only, and those very gentle;

My daughter, the only child I have, is now of an age that forward young women are allowed to be married at;