ABSTRACT
Adelaide could read perfectly well at six years old, but then she only read by way of lesson, and did not understand what it was about. Such were Adelaide's improvements, when she arrived in Languedoc. When Adelaide left Languedoc to return to Paris, she was ten years old, and during that Winter she used every morning at breakfast to read aloud the Paris Gazette. After the marriage of Adelaide, Madame d' Almane engaged her to continue her reading as usual, which she did at her toilet and as she received no company at her house for two years after she was married, she had time to pursue her studies from eighteen and a half to twenty years and a half. But when Adelaide read English and Italian, they were not so easy to her as her own tongue and therefore It have substituted for the foreign Works, more voluminous Works in French.
