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Rh by which she might be useful to Madame d'Epinoy. But the superior of the convent, from some motive that is not known, unless it were the danger to her salvation that the child might run in the great world, prevailed on Madame d'Epinoy to let her remain where she was, informing her at the same time, of some little adventures that seemed still to indicate a latent inclination for swimming and climbing trees, as she had done formerly. From which the Lady being apprehensive, lest the girl might require too much looking after, gave over all thoughts of taking her into her family. From, this period, M. de Choiseul, bishop of Chalons, was the person who took care of her, having given orders to his Vicar-general M. Cazotte, to superintend her instruction in the same convent where she had formerly been placed.

Le Blanc had lived several years in that convent, and had made applications for permission to assume the veil there, she conceived a disgust at the house, being ashamed to live with people who had seen her in her wild state immediately after she was caught, and before she was civilized; a circumstance which they made her feel very sensibly. On this account, she obtained leave to remove to a convent at Saint Menehold. Upon arriving at that town in the month of September 1747, M. de la Condamine, of the