A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!
Une créature si belle que Dieu l’eût préférée à la Vierge, et l’eût choisie pour sa mère, et eût voulu naître d’elle si elle eût existé quand il se fit homme !