Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII. of France, born at Fromenteau, Touraine, about 1409, died in 1450. She was introduced at court in 1431, soon captivated the king, though she for some time resisted his advances, and retained her influence to the last. So remarkable was her life and conduct in her peculiar position, that for some time she enjoyed the warm friendship of Charles's queen, the virtuous Marie of Anjou. It has been generally asserted that to her was mainly attributable Charles VII.'s recovery from the lethargic despair into which he had fallen, in the hopeless state of public affairs after the English victories of Henry V. and the generals who commanded for his infant son. But her luxury and wealth excited the animosity of the court and the people; and after her sudden death suspicions were entertained against the dauphin, afterward Louis XL, of having poisoned her. She had three daughters by the king.