She had told him in confession that she was in the habit of reading the English Bible.

He strongly objected, and at last told her that he could not give her absolution unless she promised to discontinue the practice.
She told him that rather than do so, she would take what would be to her the painful step of declaring herself a Protestant, whereupon he undertook to obtain a special permission for her to read the English Bible.

Whether he did really take any such measures I don't know, and I fancy she never knew; but the upshot was that she continued to read the heretical book, and nothing more was ever said of refusing her absolution.
I have a large bundle of letters from this highly accomplished young lady to my mother.

Many passages of them would be interesting and valuable to an historian of the reign of Louis Philippe.

She writes at great length, and her standpoint is the very centre of the monarchical side of the French political world of that day.