Excerpt from La Dame de Volupt , Vol. 1: M moires de Mlle de Luynes Je me - rappelais qu il consacrait un paragraphe en tier, presque nu chapitre madame la comtesse de Verme. Je relus ce qu'il avait crit sur elle, et, comme ce que je relus se trouvait parfaitement en harmonie avec ce que je me rappelais du manuscrit, je d chirai les trois ou quatre pages de saint-simon o il est question de cette dame, et les envoyai, pour lui servir de pr face, mon amie, qui, du reste, les connaissait aussi bien et m me mieux que moi. 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.