How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (61 page)

Charlotte, Queen of Naples,
55

Chartres, Louis Philippe, duc de,
83

Chénon, Pierre,
159
,
260–1

Chérin, Bernard,
17

Choiseul, Étienne François, duc de,
27–9
,
31–3
,
35n
,
131

Civil Constitution of the Clergy,
266–7

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste,
41

Collet (Rohan’s lawyer),
163

Colson, Madame,
63
,
137

Conciergerie, Paris,
227
,
248
,
288

Condé, Louis Joseph, prince de,
182

Correspondance littéraire
(journal),
76

Correspondance secrète
,
231–5

Courier de l’Europe
,
261–2

Courland,
116

Crosne, Louis Thiroux de,
146n
,
154
,
159–60
,
169–70
,
176
,
181
,
255
,
272

Crussol, baron de,
39–40

Crussol, baronne de,
48

Darnton, Robert,
279

David, Jacques-Louis,
292

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,
266

Deionice (Versailles police chief),
12

Deschamps (Jeanne’s servant),
49

Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of,
261

Devouts (
dévot
party),
27

diamonds: image,
308–9

Diderot, Denis,
27
;
Letter on the blind
,
72
;
Les Bijoux indiscrets
,
308

Dillon, Edward (
le beau
),
62n

Diss, Joseph,
264

Doillot, Maître: defends Jeanne,
170
,
181
,
252
; publishes
mémoire
,
233–5
,
239
; takes no part in Revolution,
237
; agitates for clemency for Jeanne,
249

Doria, Cardinal,
296

Dorset, John Frederick Sackville,
3
rd Duke of,
231
,
233
,
309

Dumas, Alexandre:
The Queen’s Necklace
,
303–4

Dupuis de Marcé,
20
,
169
,
172
,
202
,
205
,
212
,
219
,
225

Durand, M. (French Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna),
33

Durand (farmer),
9

Durand (Paris bookseller),
75

Eliason, Daniel,
309

Elisabeth, Madame (Louis XVI’s sister),
49–50
,
57
,
65

Enghien, duc d’,
299

Equant, Madame,
307

Estates-General,
265
,
276

Ettenheim,
297
,
299

factums
,
233
,
237

Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria,
52

Fersen, Axel,
59
,
146n
,
231

fiction: and reality,
192–4

Fleury, Cardinal André Hercule de,
65

Fontainebleau,
49

Fontette, Champagne,
18
,
22–3

Fouquier-Tinville, Antoine Quentin,
292

Fragonard, Jean Honoré:
The Love Letter
(painting),
75
;
Love Letters
(painting),
81

France: famines and poor harvests,
8
,
12
; impoverished nobility,
8
; social ambitions,
24
; relations with Austria,
32–3
; in American War of Independence,
45
; financial state,
45
; role of monarchy,
77–8
; censorship,
230
; public opinion in,
230

Francis Stephen, duc de Lorraine (
later
Emperor Francis I; Marie Antoinette’s father),
51

Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia,
33

Freemasonry,
16
,
113–14

Frémin (clerk to the
parlement
),
171
,
188
,
205

French Revolution (1789): effect of necklace affair on,
3–4
,
306–7
; outbreak,
266
; pornographic interpretation of,
279

Fronde,
165

Gazette de Cologne
,
235

Gazette de France
,
65

Gazette de Leyde
,
251
,
270

Gazette d’Utrecht
,
269–70

Geneva: Rétaux de Villette arrested in,
209–10

Geoffrin, Marie Thérèse Rodet,
26

Georgel, Jean-François, abbé: as Cardinal de Rohan’s secretary,
28
,
30
; on Jeanne’s appearance,
44–5
; on Rohan’s chagrin at disgrace,
64
; and Jeanne’s pretended intercessions for Rohan with Marie Antoinette,
68
; disapproves of Cagliostro,
119
; and Breteuil’s hostility towards Rohan,
131
; on Sainte-James’s approach to Breteuil,
133
; exaggerates role in affair,
139
; records Rohan’s interview with Louis XVI,
146n
; receives Rohan’s note on arrest and destroys papers,
153
,
157
; and Jeanne’s denial of collusion with Rohan,
162
; on Rohan’s choosing to face trial,
164
; on d’Aligre,
169
; collects intelligence for Rohan case,
171–4
; arranges settlement for payment with Boehmers,
172
; attempts to infiltrate legal process,
182
; visits Rohan in Bastille,
182
; and Rohan’s isolation in Bastille,
183
;
exiled to Mortagne-au-Perche,
203
; meets Bassenge in Basel after trial,
204
; preserves documents,
216
; on queen’s intervention in Rohan trial,
227
; on Doillot’s
mémoire
,
234
; on Rohan’s
mémoire
,
238
; on Jeanne’s death,
287

Georges (Nicolas’s manservant),
251

Godroi, Catherine,
90

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
304

Gordon, Lord George,
261

Goupil, Madame,
70–1

Graffigny, Françoise de:
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
,
72

Grand Chambre: investigates Rohan,
167

Grandmaison (policeman),
254–6

Gray, William,
124–5
,
174
,
185
,
309

Grétry, André,
91

Guay, Nicole le (‘baronne d’Oliva’): Jeanne employs in Versailles garden deception,
84–7
,
90
,
94
,
96
,
126
,
173
,
206
,
211
,
306
; arrested,
174–5
,
209
; testimony of Versailles garden meeting,
176
,
216
;
decret de prise de corps
against,
180
; in Jeanne’s testimony to Titon,
192
,
194
,
196
; interrogated by Titon,
199
; Jeanne bullies at interrogation,
205
; agrees with Rohan in testimony,
207
; and arrest of Villette,
209–10
; Jeanne accuses Rohan of bribing,
215
; Jeanne admits to disguising,
217
,
221
; interrogated by whole court,
227
,
229
; gives birth,
229
;
mémoire
and popular interest in,
236–7
; release,
242
; marriage and death,
280–1
; in Dumas novel,
303

Guéméné, Henri Louis, prince de,
96
,
104
,
140

Guéméné, Hercule Mériadec, prince de,
25

Guéméné, Victoire Armande Josèphe, princesse de,
36
,
97

Guînes, Adrien, comte de,
56

Gustav III, King of Sweden,
114

Habsburg family: Vienna court,
51–2

Hardy, Siméon-Prosper,
271
,
276

Harger, Alexis-Joseph,
166
,
216–17

Hastier, Louis,
91n
;
The Truth about the Affair of the Necklace
,
306

Hébert, Jacques-René:
Père Duchesne
,
283
,
292

Helvétius, Claude Adrien,
27

Henocque, abbé,
10–11
,
13

Henri II, King of France,
7
,
10
,
17

Histoire Véritable de Jeanne de Saint-Remi
,
283

Hitzinger (chargé d’affaires in Brussels),
174

Hôtel de Rohan-Strasbourg,
44
,
48

Huet, Christophe,
44

Hugo, Victor:
Les Misérables
,
300

Hunt, Lynn,
308

Ireland: Nicolas in,
186–7

Jefferys, Nathaniel,
124
,
309

Jesuits (Society of Jesus),
27

Johnson, Samuel:
Rasselas
,
236

Joincaire, abbé,
172

Joly de Fleury, Guillaume François-Louis,
168
,
173
,
227
,
237
,
241–4
,
248
,
252

Joly de Fleury, Jean-François,
45–6

Joly de Fleury, Omer,
168

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor: Rohan meets,
30
,
32
,
34
; visits France,
34
; on Louis XVI’s sexual technique,
55
; letter from Marie Antoinette,
144
; and Marie Antoinette’s report on Rohan investigation,
178
; believes Rohan innocent of theft,
232

Journal de Paris
,
301

Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton, Prince von,
30
,
32–4
,
252n

Laclos, Choderlos de,
287
;
Les Liaisons dangereuses
,
75–6
,
78–81
,
192
,
237

La Fontaine, Jean de: ‘Le Magnifique’,
91

La Harpe, Jean-François de,
76

la Marcha, Mlle (mantua maker),
14

La Marck, comte de,
292

Lamballe, Marie Thérèse, princesse de: friendship with Marie Antoinette,
59
; and Mme Goupil,
70
; suspected of calling on Jeanne,
269
; on necklace affair,
307

La Motte, François Henri de,
255

La Motte, Jean-Baptiste and Nicolas-Marc (twin sons of Jeanne and Nicolas),
21

La Motte, Nicolas de: meets and marries Jeanne,
20–1
; returns to regiment,
21
,
41
; researches Jeanne’s lost lands,
22
; in Strasbourg,
38
; commissioned in
garde du corps
,
39
,
41
,
48
; quits Gendarmerie,
39
; and Jeanne’s affairs,
64
; debts,
67
; show of wealth,
67
; involved in Nicole le Guay deception,
84–5
,
88
; infidelities,
100
; and purchase of necklace,
105
,
107
,
109
; in London to sell diamonds,
124–5
; absence in Bar,
135
,
142
,
149
; Bassenge visits,
143
; absent when Jeanne learns of Rohan’s arrest,
151–2
; and Jeanne’s arrest,
153
; description circulated,
173
;
decret de prise de corps
issued against,
180
; evades arrest,
184
; flees to England and Ireland,
185–6
,
215
; attacked in London,
185
; poisoned,
187
,
273
; found guilty in absentia,
251
; and endeavours to repatriate,
252–8
; Jeanne reunited with in England,
271
; plans to publish libel,
272–5
; memoirs,
273
,
300–1
; maligns Jeanne,
281
; petitions to have sentence revoked,
282
; told of Jeanne’s funeral,
287
; absolved of all crimes,
288
; demands retrial after Jeanne’s death,
288
; imprisoned in Conciergerie,
288
; later life,
300–1
; death,
301
; on role in French Revolution,
306