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to prepare for my first communion in the deepest possible seclusion." As her parents expressed themselves ready to comply with her desire, she was presently placed in the Sisterhood of the Congregation, in the Rue Neuve St. Étienne, Faubourg St. Marceau. This happened on the 7th of May 1765, when she was eleven years old. By a curious coincidence, the convent where she then passed one of the happiest years, of childhood was touching the prison where she came to be confined in her prime.
