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13 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 state immediately after she was caught, and when uncivilized, she obtained leave to remove to a Convent at Saint Menehold. 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 and converse with her, that he might know what progress she had made in her education. Being afterwards removed to another Convent, still under the protection of that Prince, she fell from a window, and receiving a violent stroke on the head, occasioned a long disorder which attacked her. Her life was despaired of, but by the kind assistance of her noble patron, she was considerably relieved. It is impossible to express