Mlle Aisse., a Circassian lady, born in 1694, died in Paris in 1733. When she was four years old the count de Ferriol, French ambassador at Constantinople, purchased her from a slave dealer, who stated that she was the daughter of a Circassian prince. The count had her educated at Paris, under the superintendence of his sister-in-law, but he afterward seduced her. Though she repulsed the brilliant offers of the dissolute regent, the duke of Orleans, she indulged a guilty passion for the chevalier d'Aydie, a knight of Malta. Her letters contained interesting anecdotes relating to the court and to contemporary personages, and were thought worthy by Voltaire of being published, accompanied by annotations of his own (1787). In 1806 they were collected, together with those of Mines, de Villars, La Fayette, and De Tencin (Paris, 3 vols. 12mo).