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Rh  with her, left off his irregularities of conduct; and, though the reserve and delicacy of Laura would never permit him to hope for a return, she treated him with friendship, and appears not to have been in reality, insensible to his love, which rendered her renowned throughout Europe. of some romances, written in an easy, natural stile. Her first work was Le Danger des Liaisons, ou Memoirs de la Baronne de Blemon. Her maiden name was d'Oville, she married M. de Saint-Aubin, a gentleman of good family in Burgundy, and after his death the baron d'Andlau. She wrote also memoirs, in the form of letters between two young persons of quality. maiden name was Margaretta, but before the age of fourteen she was married to the Marquis de Saint Chamont, who died in the year 1750, at which time, she was obliged to prove her marriage by a process which lasted three years. The merits of which were, during the whole time, not only the subject of conversation in Paris, but throughout all Europe; but at last she triumphed over an host of enemies and false witnesses, who strove to vilify and defame her.

She commenced author, it is said, at the particular request of the marquis her husband; and first wrote an elegy