A Provençal woman, a laywoman all her life, she gathered at Hyères and then at Marseille women who wanted to pray and work without entering an order: the beguines of Roubaud. Her life was written in Provençal by one of them, Philippine de Porcellet, who had heard her speak.
In their own words
Be assured that as long as you keep up prayer, what you have built will last, and you will persevere in every good thing. […] For it is prayer that is the tie and the safeguard of our way of life.
The Life of Saint Douceline, ch. IX, ed. and French trans. J.-H. Albanès, Marseille, 1879, p. 71; Provençal « Per cert sapias que tant cant continuares oracion, vostre estamens durara, e perseverares en totz bens […] Car aquisti es estaqua e fermeza de tot nostre estament », English by the Manna team