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 her best state of health being a sickly languor, which seemed to be carrying her to the grave. A physician was sent for to see her, who, being at a loss what to prescribe, hinted, that it was necessary to indulge her now and then with a bit of raw flesh. Accordingly they gave her some, but she could, by that time, only chew it, and suck the blood out of it, which relieved her. It was with great trouble that she began to recover, and accustom herself to cooked victuals. She was then placed in a convent, at Chalons, where she began to improve, and be pretty expert in several female works, and her education. She had lived some years in that convent, and had applied for permission to assume the veil; but conceiving a disgust at the house, and being ashamed to live with people who had seen her in her wild estate immediately after she was caught, and when uncivilized, she obtained leave to remove to a convent at St. Manchold. She did not remain long here, the Duke of Orleans taking her under his protection, brought her to Paris, placed her in the convent of the Novelles Catholiques, in the street of St, Anne, and went thither himself to see