THE MEMOIRS OF A FEMME DE CHAMBRE. A NOVEL. BY THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 907. MEMOIRS OF A FEMME DE CHAMBRE. CHAPTER I. We live in an age when to write memoirs is almost as common, if not quite as easy, as to read them. It is the knowledge of this fact that gives me courage to attempt the task I have imposed on myself, and should I fail in executing it, I shall have at least achieved my principal object, that of noting down events from which some moral may be drawn, some warning taken. The sentiments and opinions of a person who has filled only a position generally deemed so subaltern a one, as that of a Femme de |