How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (64 page)

Rome: Cagliostro in,
294

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques:
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
,
72
,
193

Russia: as threat to Austria,
32
,
34

Rutland, Charles Manners,
4
th Duke of,
186

Sackville family,
309

Sackville-West, Vita,
309

Saint-Cloud, chateau of,
60–1

Saint-Rémy, Jacques, baron de (Jeanne’s father): background,
7–9
; family relations,
10
; imprisoned,
10–11
; migrates to Paris and Boulogne,
10
; death,
11
,
92

Saint-Rémy, Jacques (Jeanne’s brother): birth,
9
; taken in by Boulainvilliers,
13
; naval career,
14
,
17
; presented to Louis XVI,
17
; death,
181

Saint-Rémy, Marguerite (Jeanne’s sister): birth,
9
; taken in by Boulainvilliers,
13
; death,
14

Saint-Rémy, Marianne (Jeanne’s sister): birth,
9
; left with Durand,
9
; flees Longchamp,
18
; reunion with Jeanne,
18
; character and appearance,
19
; enters convent,
20
; passes Jeanne in Bastille,
181
; correspondence with Jeanne,
281

Saint-Rémy, Nicolas (Jeanne’s grandfather),
8–9

Saint Vaast, Abbey of,
38
,
172

Saint-Vincent, Robert de,
242–3

Sainte-James, Claude Baudard de,
130
,
132
,
134
,
143
,
171
,
177–8
,
202
,
207

Salpêtrière, Paris,
268

Sanson, Charles-Henri,
293

Sarasin, Jacques,
117

Saverne, Alsace,
37
,
266

Serpaud, Philippe-Jacques,
204

Seven Years War (1765–73),
9

Seymour, Madame (Nicolas’s mistress),
281

Shakespeare, William:
Twelfth Night
,
93–5

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,
261

Sophie, Hélène Béatrice (Marie Antoinette’s daughter): death,
289

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince and maréchal de,
25
,
145
,
154
,
182

Staël-Holstein, Baron de,
146n
,
147n
,
247

Stanislaw Poniatowski, King of Poland,
32
,
37

Strasbourg: Palais Rohan,
38
; Cagliostro in,
116

Stuart, Miss (Nicolas’s inamorata in Wales),
186

Subois, Police Inspector,
152–3
,
255

Surmont, Madame de (of Bar-sur-Aube),
18–20

Sutherland, George Leveson-Gower,
1
st Duke of,
309

Swinton, Samuel,
261

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, prince de Benevento: on necklace scandal,
4

Target, Guy-Jean-Baptiste: defends Rohan,
163
,
171
,
173
,
177–8
,
183
,
191
,
201–2
,
207
,
225
; and Jeanne’s interrogations,
205
; on Jeanne’s self-incrimination,
223
; reads excerpts from Rohan
mémoire
,
237–8
; publishes
mémoire
,
238–9
; and Rohan’s acquittal,
244
; Rohan maintains contact with,
264

Thilorier, Jean-Charles,
170

Thrale, Hester,
51

Tillet, Mathieu,
269–71

Titon de Villotran, Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien,
169
,
172
,
176
,
177
,
179
; interrogates Rohan and Jeanne,
188–96
,
198–9
; dismisses Rohan’s
requête
for ecclesiastical court,
201
; questions Villette,
210
,
212
,
217
; Jeanne admits d’Oliva’s ignorance of deception,
224
; partiality,
226
; presents report to magistrates,
226
; and final interrogation,
227
; opposes acquittal of Rohan,
244

Tournelle (court): investigates Rohan,
167

Traverse (surgeon),
225

Tronchet (Rohan’s lawyer),
163

Valbonne, comte de,
107

Varennes,
290

Vaudémont, prince and princesse de,
182

Vaudreuil, Joseph Hyacinthe François, comte de,
92

Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de: Louis XVI pleads with not to overwork,
54
; Marie Antoinette seeks dismissal,
56
; as ally and supporter of Rohan,
64
,
154
,
157
,
162
,
214
; career,
154
; and Rohan’s trial,
161
; disparages Doillot,
170
; circulates Nicolas’s description abroad,
173
; learns of d’Oliva’s whereabouts,
174–5
; on responsibilities of Rohan case,
177
; unsure of Rohan’s innocence,
231
; and Nicolas’s return from England,
252–3
,
255–7
; and Nicolas’s demands for retrial,
288
; death,
289

Véri, abbé de,
227

Vermond, Jacques Mathieu, abbé de,
52
,
133
,
144
,
155–6

Versailles: Marie Saint-Rémy and family move to,
11
; court,
41–3
,
56–7
; Jeanne and Nicolas move to,
41
,
57–8
; garden,
86
,
176
; formalities,
145
; invaded by revolutionary women,
289

Vidal-Lainé, Israel,
123

Vienna: Cardinal de Rohan in,
29–31
; Rohan leaves,
34–5
; royal court,
52

Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth,
66
;
La Reine en gaulle
(painting),
89–90

Villeroi, duc de,
153

Voltaire, François Marie Arouet,
13
,
25–7
;
Candide
,
236

Warren (London perfumer),
286–7

Wootton, David,
117n

The necklace of slavery: it was so heavy that the two streamers on the right and the left ran down the back of the wearer to stop her toppling over

La Reine engaulle
by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: this unregal depiction of Marie Antoinette caused consternation when it was exhibited in 1783 among viewers who thought the queen was ‘dressed like a serving-maid’

Nicole le Guay, dubbed the baronne d’Oliva: might not a brief glimpse on a dark night lead one to identify this woman, with her slender neck and prominent chin, as Marie Antoinette?

Jeanne de La Motte-Valois: she channelled her unfulfilled fantasies of life at the heart of the Court into more lucrative outlets. This image is the frontispiece of the judicial
mémoire
printed in her defence during the trial