Excerpt from Secret Memoirs; The Court of Royal Saxony, 1891-1902: The Story of Louise Crown Princess, From the Pages of Her Diary, Lost at the Time of Her Elopement From Dresden With M. Andre ("Richard") Giron For the Saxon Louise wrote not to guide the hand of future official historiographers, or to make virtue distasteful to some sixty odd grandchildren, bored to death by the recital of the late Mrs. John Brown's sublime goodness Louise wrote for her own amusement, even as Pepys did when he diarized the peccadilloes of the Second Charles' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.