Excerpt from Memoirs of the House of Orleans, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Sketches and Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Characters in France During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesThe greater part of this work being personal and anecdotic, it has been deemed advisable to indicate the sources from which the facts were derived, and this has led to a greater number of notes than would otherwise be desirable, but it is believed that these notes will be found to contain much' interesting matter entirely new to English readers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.