How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (54 page)

224
   
‘have the chance’
: AN X2B/1417/86/56.

224
   
‘to blame me’
: AN X2B/1417/17/97.

225
   
‘a moment’s silence’
: BHVP MS691/236.

225
   
barely recognised him
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 16 January 1786.

225
   
‘might be taken’
: BHVP MS691/5.

225
   
‘unsupportable’
: BHVP MS691/228.

225
   
‘upon my sympathy’
: BHVP MS691/225.

226
   
His stomach cramps . . . eye leaked pus
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.195.

226
   
‘which I cause them’
: BN JdF 2088/84.

226
   
‘to their [Villette and Jeanne’s] lot’
: BHVP MS691/228.

226
   
‘to face Titon’
: BHVP MS691/232.

226
   
‘always sad?’
: BHVP MS691/231.

226
   
‘of the queen?’
: BHVP MS691/230.

226
   
drown herself
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 30 April 1786.

226
   
‘her pretty neck’
:
Correspondance Secrète
, 8 May 1786.

226
   
On 22 May
: the account of the hearing draws primarily on the Compte Rendu, p.68ff, the diary entries of Siméon-Prosper Hardy for the period and precis of private deliberations of the judges which were smuggled to Rohan’s legal team and are preserved in the Dossier Target.

227
   
‘demand his recusal’
: quoted in
La Vérité sur l’affaire du collier
, Hastier, p.244.

227
   
‘and her reputation’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.175.

228
   
‘he leant on his cane’ . . . ‘shedding tears’
: anonymous manuscript account in the British Library, Folio 707.g.26.

228
   
finished their questions
: BHVP MS691/260.

228
   
‘a single syllable’
: LJSRV II, p.98.

228
   
‘surprised at nothing’
: BHVP MS691/261.

228
   
‘ask me that’
: AAE MDF 1400/213.

228
   
‘chair in her apartment’
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 17 June 1786.

228
   
‘not to offend the queen’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.303.

229
   
‘his birth and rank’
: Compte Rendu, p.117.

229
   
as he entered
: British Library, Folio 707.g.26.

229
   
returned the gesture
: AAE MDF 1400/213.

229
   
according to one judge
: see
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.305.

229
   
Greek and Italian
: AAE MDF 1400/214.

22. In the Gossip Factory

230
   
‘the great questions’
: AAE CP Rome 901/210.

230
   
‘
with that one
’
: ‘Monsieur le Public’ in Mercier, vol. 1, pp. 1473–4.

230
   
The public sphere
: the discussion here inevitably takes as its starting point
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
by Jurgen Habermas, and also draws on work by Robert Darnton and Sarah Maza on the relationship between literary production and public opinion; and
Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Régime France
by David A. Bell on the development of an ideology of liberty within the Parisian Bar.

230
   
Breteuil’s clarion blast
: the account of ebb and flow of rumour draws on the diaries of Siméon-Prosper Hardy and news-sheets, such as the
Gazette de Leyde
, the
Mémoires Secrets
and the
Correspondance Secrète
.

231
   
‘to find partisans’
:
Correspondance Secrète
, 31 August 1785.

231
   
squandered the proceeds?
: Hardy, 17 August 1785.

231
   
Thirty Years War?
: op. cit., 24 August 1785.

231
   
‘implicated in it’
: quoted in
Despatches from Paris
, Browning, vol. 1, p.71.

231
   
‘accuse the queen’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.247.

231
   
‘so stupidly duped’
: AAE CP Autriche 350/120.

231
   
‘herself seem pregnant’
: quoted in
L’affaire du collier
, Lever, p.158.

232
   
‘published against her’
:
Souvenirs et Portraits
by the duc de Lévis (1815), pp. 157–8.

232
   
denouncing the queen
: PMLA, p.202; Hardy, 10 September 1785.

232
   
‘in actual criminality’
: AAE CP Autriche 350/252.

232
   
among his detractors
: see
The Queen of Fashion
, Weber, p.159.

232
   
to lend colour
: see
Brilliant Effects
, Pointon, p.152.

232
   
were also available
: see
The Queen’s Necklace
, Mossiker, p.439.

232
   
portrait of Jeanne
:
General Evening Post
, 30 May 1786.

233
   
‘greatly in [his] favour’
: quoted in
Despatches from Paris
, Browning, vol. 1, p.113.

233
   
‘soap him clean
’ BHVP MS691/295.

233
   
‘I’m a clown’
: BHVP MS691/297.

233
   
‘false prophet’
: Mémoire Jeanne, p.4.

234
   
‘rococo comedy’
:
Private Lives and Public Affairs
, Maza, p.204

234
   
‘guilty of everything’
: ibid.

234
   
‘in a hundred ways’
: op. cit., p.28.

234
   
‘happened to want it’
:
Les Observations de P Tranquille sur le 1er mémoire de Mme la Comtesse de La Motte
(La Mecque, 1786), p.35, quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.274.

234
   
‘the cardinal exceedingly’
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 28 November 1785.

234
   
‘defence requires it’
: op. cit., 2 December 1785.

235
   
‘intrigue and lust’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.136.

235
   
avid crowds
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 20 February 1786.

235
   
‘under the Pharaoh’s orders’
:
Correspondance Secrète
, 24 February 1786.

235
   
in the lions’ den
: quote in
L’affaire du collier
, Lever, p.190.

235
   
in his
mémoire
: see Mémoire Cagliostro, passim.

236
   
‘emblem of this kindness’
:
Correspondance Secrète
, 17 April 1786.

236
   
on her release
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 27 March 1786.

236
   
multiple readers
: see
Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France
by Sarah Maza, p.190.

236
   
Thousand and One Nights
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 23 March 1786.

236
   
‘enough of [Jeanne]’
: MGO I, p.7.

236
   
‘to do things’
: op. cit., p.3.

236
   
‘without support’
: op. cit., p.7.

237
   
‘before eternal justice.’
: op. cit., p.38.

237
   
‘danger of liaisons’
: op. cit., p.46.

237
   
run out the clock
: Hardy, 3 March 1786.

237
   
in his own home
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 2 February 1786.

238
   
‘two terrible expressions’
: BHVP MS691/9.

238
   
‘tell him immediately’
: BHVP MS691/23.

238
   
‘overshadowed the work’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.160.

239
   
‘truth and lies’
: Mémoire Rohan, p.5.

239
   
‘limits on illusion’
: op. cit., p.65.

239
   
‘of mere mortals’
: quoted in
Queen of Fashion
, Weber, p.161.

239
   
‘into simple individuals’
:
Mémoires de Mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie Antoinette
, p.131.

23. Judgement Day

241
   
At six o’clock
: the Compte Rendu gives a very detailed account of the judicial debates about sentencing. Siméon-Prosper Hardy describes the aftermath.

241
   
‘knowledge of the transaction’
: Compte Rendu, p.113.

241
   
‘only falsehoods and lies’
: BN JdF 2088/26.

241
   
‘magistrates share it’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, pp. 301–2.

241
   
punitive damages
: for Joly’s conclusions, see AN X2B/1417/78.

242
   
‘as Rétaux de Villette’
: BN JdF 2088/26.

242
   
cementing our own
: Compte Rendu, p.130.

242
   
‘from its principles’
: op. cit., p.131.

243
   
creatures of the queen
: Castries, p.320.

243
   
‘to this infamy’
: BN JdF 2089/36.

243
   
‘led on by the La Mottes’
: Compte Rendu, p.120.

244
   
‘Long live the
parlement
’ . . . ‘deserve this applause’
: Compte Rendu, p.154.

244
   
‘an unjust judgement’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.313.

245
   
‘voted against [him]’
: d’Arneth and Flammermont, Mercy-Argenteau to Joseph II, 12 July 1786, ‘Note sur l’arrêt du parlement de Paris’.

245
   
of the Court party
: p.83.

245
   
‘with their principles’
: PLMA, p.204.

245
   
for Rohan’s conviction
: Castries, p.320.

245
   
‘where I’m going’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.321.

246
   
‘against authority’
: PLMA, p.204.

246
   
‘torture my soul’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.316.

246
   
‘a terrible bang’
: quoted in
La Vérité sur l’affaire du collier
, Hastier, p.242.

246
   
‘retain the mark’
: quoted in
The Diamond Necklace
, Funck-Brentano, p.240.

246–7
‘The affair has’ . . . ‘such a commission’
: PLMA, p.204.

247
   
The following day
: see Castries, p.321.

247
   
‘Indecent joy’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.207.

247
   
‘very few people’
: AAE MDF 1400/217.

247
   
‘underneath a lantern’
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 9 June 1786.

248
   
‘covered in contempt’
: quoted in
L’affaire du collier
, Lever, p.290.

248
   
‘three years later’
: Castries, p.322.

248
   
‘to my house’
: BN JdF 2089/165.

248
   
‘never to return!’
:
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
, 7 July 1786.