The Countess's Client

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Alison Richardson. The Countess's Client

The Countess’s Client. Book 1 of The Countess Trilogy. Alison Richardson

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Until the age of twenty, I could boast that I had lived a perfect life of apparent virtue, enjoying all the pleasures that are every woman’s natural birthright without the slightest injury to either my status or my person. I have now, however, had one notable failure, and I feel compelled to record the story of this unhappy event, so that others might avoid the snares that caught me.

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“He’s beneath us. Madame thinks so, too—he should just go and find a girl on the street. But he is a client of the Duke de Brecis, so Madame can’t send him away.”

These girls understood the web of social obligations that bound together the French aristocracy and their dependents better than most ladies-in-waiting.

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