Excerpt from The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821An exquisite collection of butter¿ies and moths is still in existence, painted by her clever fingers from specimens reared by herself. Each one is depicted upon its favourite ¿ower, and accompanied by its caterpillar and chrysalis on the food plant. This was, alas left unfinished at her death.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.