I am Grace Elliott, I was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution. I was an eyewitness to events detailed in my memoirs, Journal of my life during the French Revolution (Ma Vie sous la Révolution) published posthumously in 1859. I was mistress to the Duke of Orléans and to the future George IV, by whom I am said to have borne an illegitimate daughter. I trafficked correspondence and hid French aristocrats escaping from the French Revolution. I was arrested several times but managed to avoid the guillotine, and was released after the death of Robespierre.