The Virginia Gazette

August 31. This Month, the Parliament of Paris adjudged an Estate to Mademoiselle de Vigny, who had lived 50 Years without knowing who were her Parents.

This was the Case: M. Ferrand, President of one of the Chambers of Justice in Paris, had been many Years married, and had no Issue, at length his Wife was with Child; on which the old Gentleman was uneasy, and pretended to be certain he was not Father of it.

The Moment it was born, he ordered it to be taken out of his House: The Midwife carried it to a Church to be christened; but a Dispute arising about the proper Name it should be registered by, M. Ferrand entered a Protest against calling it by his, and there remained a Blank in the Book to the Time of the Trial. The Girl was put to a common Nurse, and now and then relieved, but never visited, by the Mother, nor at all made acquainted with her Parents, 'til the Midwife found her out, and by her Personal Evidence, prov'd the above Circumstances.