Her father's palace was pillaged by the Turks, and as a child of four years old she was sold to the comte Charles de Ferriol, the French ambassador at Constantinople (see Crimean slave trade).

Her great beauty and romantic history made her the fashion, and she attracted the notice of the regent, Philip II, Duke of Orléans, whose offers she had the strength of mind to refuse.

Letter VII, dated Paris, 1727, was adapted by Leonora Blanche Alleyne as The Man in White and illustrated by Henry Justice Ford in The Red True Story Book (1895).

[3] It has been argued that the letters were heavily rewritten before their posthumous publication,[4] based on stylistic differences with rare surviving manuscripts.

[5] Mlle Aïssé may have inspired Abbé Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne [fr] (1740) and Claire de Duras's Ourika (1823).