Editing Ninon de l'Enclos (section)

==Early life==
Born Anne de l'Enclos in Paris on 10 November 1620,<ref name="birth">Sources also list her birth date as 9 January 1623; see {{cite book|last1=Wall|first1=Glenda|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|volume=1|date=1991|publisher=Garland|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=717–718|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncN7uneLKrcC&pg=PA717}} and {{cite book|last=Chew III|first=William L.|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|date=2002|publisher=Yorkin Publications|location=Waterford, Connecticut|isbn=0-7876-4074-3|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591305306.html|chapter=Lenclos, Ninon de (1623–1705)|url-access=subscription|access-date=23 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220185019/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591305306.html|archive-date=20 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> she was nicknamed "Ninon" at an early age by her father, Henri de l'Enclos, a lutenist and published composer, who taught her to sing and play the lute.<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Dugot |first=Joël |last2=Ledbetter |first2=David |title=L'Enclos, Henri de|name-list-style=amp}}</ref> In 1632, he was exiled from France after a duel. When Ninon's mother, Marie Barbe [[:fr:Fichier:Blason de la famille de la Marche.svg|de la Marche]], died ten years later, the unmarried Ninon entered a convent, only to leave the next year. For the remainder of her life she was determined to remain unmarried and independent.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harrison|first=David|date=January 2007|title=Portrait of the courtesan: the 'two bodies' of Ninon de Lenclos|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A167778411/AONE?u=lond95336&sid=AONE&xid=c305c15d|journal=Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature|volume=34|issue=67|pages=309+|via=Academic OneFile}}</ref>