Excerpt from The Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile De Courtot: Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess De Lamballe Princess of Savoy-CarignanThat was the mother of my great-grandfather, the oak chest might therefore well command our veneration as a family heirloom.On the rare occasions when we children were permitted a peep into this chest, there was no end to our wonder and de light, for the spirit of a strange and by-gone world seemed to breathe from it and the marvellous things that lay therein. It was a very reliquary in our childish eyes.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.