Excerpt from The Fortunate Country Maid, Being the Entertaining Memoirs of the Present Celebrated Marchioness of L-V-, Vol. 1 of 2: Who, From a Cottage, Through a Great Variety of Diverting Adventures, Became a Lady of the First Quality in the Court of France, by Her Steady Adherence to the Principles of Virtue and Honour Was pleas'd to inform me qf tbc Aflir, concerning wbieb jbe bad [ant for me. I am writing, Sir, [aid jbe, tbc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.