How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (55 page)

248
   
‘an electrical shock’
: LJSRV II, p.121.

248
   
‘destined for destruction’
: op. cit., p.124.

249
   
Doillot, her lawyer
: see AN X2B/1417/122.

249
   
‘enchanted the cardinal’
: Hardy, 21 June 1786.

249
   
‘yelling wildly’
: HVJSR, p.72. The account of Jeanne’s punishment comes from
Gazette d’un parisien sous la Révolution
by Nicholas Ruault, letter dated 31 June, Hardy, 21 June 1786 and the
Mémoires du Baron Besenval
, p.385.

249
   
‘from these murderers’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.334.

249
   
‘be over soon’
: William Eden, quoted in
The Queen’s Necklace
, Mossiker, p.484.

24. Catch Him if You Can: A Burlesque

251
   
guilty in absentia
: the account of Nicolas’s adventures derives from NLM, p.93ff, MJ I, p.102ff, and the papers contained in the Archives des affaires étrangères, series MDF 1400 and CP Angleterre 905.

252
   
‘mud still further’
: quoted in
L’affaire du collier
, Lever, p.274.

252
   
‘aren’t you?’
: NLM, p.100.

252
   
‘life and death’
: op. cit., p.104.

253
   
‘friend’
: AAE MDF 1400/75.

254
   
‘You are busy’
: MJ II, p.6.

254
   
‘town is impractical’
: op. cit., p.8.

254
   
‘[they would have hurled] him into the sea’
: MJ II, p.9.

255
   
‘intelligence-gathering’
: AAE MDF 1400/159.

255
   
‘great repugnance’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/149.

255
   
‘prey’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/162.

255
   
‘I’m an idiot’
: AAE MDF 1400/227.

256
   
‘with false confidence’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/227.

256
   
‘you new benefits’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/273.

256–7
‘Our man is here’ . . . ‘to the queen’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/275.

257
   
‘He is a young man’ . . . ‘my departure’
: AAE CP Angleterre 556/283.

257
   
‘partiality and prejudice’
:
Louis XVI and the comte de Vergennes: correspondence 1774–1787
, Hardman and Price, Vergennes to Louis XVI, 4 June 1786.

258
   
‘Although you conducted’ . . . ‘spread in England’
: op. cit., Louis XVI to Vergennes, 4 June 1786.

25. Farewell, My Country

259
   
On the same day
: the account of Cagliostro’s subsequent career draws on
Cagliostro and Company
by Frantz Funck-Brentano,
Cagliostro: A Biography
by Roberto Gervaso,
The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro
by Iain McCalman and
A King’s Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailers, Scandalmonger and Master-Spy
by Simon Burrows.

259
   
‘my country farewell!’
: ‘Lettre au Peuple de France’ (London, 1786), pp. 1–2

259
   
‘his agents, his creatures’
: op. cit., p.2.

260
   
‘received by envy’
: op. cit., pp. 3–4.

260
   
‘injustice and death’
: op. cit., p.4.

260
   
‘a public promenade’
: op. cit., pp. 4–5.

260
   
‘balms, drugs, elixirs’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.15.

260
   
‘brought sedition nearer’
: quoted in op. cit., p.21.

261
   
‘body of people’
: quoted in
The Seven Ordeals
, McCalman, p.143.

262
   
‘queen’s Bastille party’
: quoted in
A King’s Ransom
, Burrows, p.162.

262
   
‘friends among them’
: quoted in
The Seven Ordeals
, McCalman, p.158.

263
   
‘out of your knowledge’
: quoted in
A King’s Ransom
, Burrows, p.165.

263
   
‘to a Cagliostro’
: quoted in op. cit., p.166.

263
   
‘I wish to dispatch’
: quoted in
The Seven Ordeals
, McCalman, p.160.

263
   
‘endure all evening’
: quoted in
A King’s Ransom
, Burrows, pp. 166–7.

263
   
Rohan’s retreat from
: the account of Rohan’s life after his acquittal draws primarily on
Les Rohans: ‘roi ne puis, duc ne daigne, Rohan suis’
by Alain Boulaire,
Le Siècle de Rohan: une dynastie de cardinaux en Alsace au XVIIIe siècle
by Claude Muller,
Louis de Rohan: le cardinal ‘collier’
by Eric de Haynin and
Cagliostro and Company
by Frantz Funck-Brentano.

264
   
‘source of happiness’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, pp. 231–2.

264
   
‘as well as physically’
: quoted in
Le Siècle de Rohan
, Muller, p.412.

264
   
‘to the other’
: quoted in op. cit., p.283.

265
   
‘Alsace and France’
: quoted in
Louis de Rohan
, Haynin, p.270.

265
   
Alsace could no more
: the account of the events in the French Revolution draws primarily on
The Great Nation
by Colin Jones and
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
by William Doyle.

266
   
‘established and assured’
: quoted in
Oxford History
, Doyle, p.105.

26. Down and Out in Paris and London

268
   
after her branding
: the account of Jeanne’s life after her sentence is drawn from her two memoirs,
L’Evasion de madame de La Motte: un episode de l’affaire du collier
by Henry Légier Desgranges,
Cagliostro and Company
by Frantz Funck-Brentano, the relevant papers in the CP Angleterre series of the Archives des affaires étrangères and her personal papers held in the Archives nationales F7/4445/2–4550/2.

268
   
‘slow and prolonged death’
: LJSRV II, p.154.

268
   
‘live in peace here’
: quoted in
L’Evasion de madame de La Motte
, Légier Desgranges, p.117.

268
   
‘they are buried’
: quoted in op. cit., p.118.

268
   
‘horror of her fate’
:
Mémoires
of the princesse de Lamballe, quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.95.

269
   
‘in the Hospital’
: quoted in
L’Evasion de madame de La Motte
, Légier Desgranges, p.88.

269
   
‘an audience with you’
:
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
, 26 August 1786.

269
   
‘in her tears’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.97.

269
   
‘in plenty of water’
: quoted in op. cit., pp. 97–8.

270
   
‘had been his daughter’
: LJSRV II, p.149.

270
   
‘
The Imitation of Christ
’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.99.

270
   
‘gives expression to’
: quoted in op. cit., p.98.

270
   
‘of her confinement’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, pp. 101–2.

270
   
‘changing your condition’
: LJSRV II, p.189.

271
   
‘has your heart’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.110.

271
   
‘in charge of her’
: BN JdF 2089/210.

272
   
‘this mysterious intrigue’
:
Morning Star
, 13 December 1786.

272
   
‘I believe reasonable’
: AAE CP Angleterre 559/22.

272
   
‘nothing is more foolish’ . . . ‘in the street’
: AAE CP Angleterre 559/166–7.

272
   
‘for their escape’
: BN JdF 2089/205–6.

273
   
‘in good humour’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, pp. 115–16.

273
   
‘helpless to the floor’
: quoted in op. cit., p.116.

274
   
‘about this writing’
: quoted in
Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution: London’s French Libellistes, 1758–92
by Simon Burrows, p.134.

274
   
‘to the queen’
: quoted in
Calonne: financier, réformateur, contrerévolutionnaire, 1734–1802
by Robert Lacour-Gayet, p.265

274
   
‘you have been marked’
:
Julie philosophe, ou le bon patriot
, vol. 2, p.19.

275
   
‘did not concern him’
: AAE CP Angleterre 567/364.

27. Confessions of a Justified Sinner

276
   
‘monster of virtue’
: MJ I, p.1.

276
   
‘tyranny of France’
: op. cit., p.ii.

277
   
‘yourself to me’
: op. cit., p.27.

277
   
‘without seeing him’
: op. cit., p.57.

278
   
‘chained’
: op. cit., p.20.

278
   
‘chain of imprudences’
: op. cit., p.70.

278
   
‘chain the lion’
: op. cit., p.78.

278
   
‘chain of misfortunes’
: op. cit., p.14.

278
   
‘dismemberment’
: op. cit., p.ii.

278
   
‘evil clash of their terrible interests’
: op. cit., p.4.

279
   
of all respect
: see
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
by Robert Darnton.

279
   
‘foundational text’
:
Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution
, Burrows, p.152.

280
   
‘and abandoned by all’
: MHV, p.4.

280
   
‘could dare all’
: op. cit., p.11.

281
   
‘of my subsistence’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, pp. 77–8.

281
   
‘most shameful tales’
: quoted in op. cit., pp. 129–30.

282
   
‘
moisonneuse
’
: quoted in op. cit., p.136.

282
   
‘monster’ . . . ‘her sister’s help’
: quoted in op. cit., p.139.

282
   
‘consolation’
: quoted in op. cit., p.134.

282
   
‘some German principality’
: AN F7/4445/2–4550/2/13.

282
   
‘nonsense’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.137.

282
   
‘still sustains me’
: quoted in op. cit., p.143.

283
   
‘her perfidious caresses’
:
Second Mémoire Justificatif de la Comtesse de Valois de la Motte
, p.27.

283
   
‘sensitive character’
:
Grande Visite de Madame de Lamotte au Père Duchesne Malade
, p.1.

283
   
‘good sense’
:
Grand Visite du Père Duchesne à Madame Lamotte
, p.5.

28. The Fall of the Houses of Valois and Bourbon

285
   
‘as a chimney’
: quoted in
Cagliostro and Company
, Funck-Brentano, p.146.

285
   
‘loathsome holes’
: quoted in op. cit., p.163.

286
   
‘stop its course’
: LJSRV II, ‘Supplement’, p.61.