How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (53 page)

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Authors: Jonathan Beckman

191

‘made to offer them’
: op. cit., p.279.

191

‘Is it not true’ . . . ‘horrific’
: op. cit., pp. 277–8.

192

‘I did not know’
: op. cit., p.283.

192

‘What you suggest is fantasy’ . . . ‘with so many lies and horrors’
: op. cit., p.289.

193

‘boor of a Frenchman’
: quoted in ‘Vraisemblance et Motivation’ in
Figures II
by Gérard Genette, p.73. The discussion here draws on
Genette’s essay and ‘Prose Fiction: France’ by English Showalter in
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume IV – The Eighteenth Century
, edited by H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson.

193

‘a privilege of reality’
: quoted in
Figures II
, Genette, p.74.

193

‘fawned upon, rewarded’
: quoted in ‘Prose Fiction: France’, Showalter, p.225.

194

‘most stringent safeguards’
: ‘Interrogation with Jeanne de La Motte’, Campardon, p.304.

194

‘madder and madder’
: op. cit., p.292.

194

‘of not recognising the queen’
: op. cit., p.290.

194

‘reality effect’
: see ‘The Reality Effect’ in
The Rustle of Language
by Roland Barthes, pp. 141–8.

195

‘was very dirty’
: ‘Interrogation with Jeanne de La Motte’, Campardon, p.288.

195

‘I’m very sorry’ . . . ‘such affairs’
: op. cit., p.296.

195

‘You are being’ . . . ‘could go awry’
: op. cit., p.301.

195

‘I am an old man’
: op. cit., p.321.

196

‘utterly extraordinary man’
: op. cit., p.313.

196

‘a meeting with the queen’
: op. cit., p.280.

196

‘Marie Antoinette de France’
: op. cit., p.302.

196

‘what they are worth’
: op. cit., p.307.

196

Loth, her traitorous . . . 50,000 écus cash
: op. cit., pp. 285–6; op. cit., p.321.

196

‘extraordinary’ . . . ‘exact truth’
: op. cit., p.318.

197–8
‘It was the second of August’ . . . ‘deny it’
: op. cit., pp. 326–7.

199

‘normal for a prince’s house’
: ‘Interrogation with Cagliostro’, Campardon, p.344.

200

‘fruit of her intrigues’
: ‘Interrogation with Rohan’, Campardon, p.270.

19. Cheek to Cheek, Toe to Toe

201

before an ecclesiastical court
: AAE CP Rome 902/104.

201

‘competent tribunal’
: Compte Rendu, p.52ff. The Compte Rendu, though clearly favourable to Rohan, gives an exhaustive account of the judges’ deliberations.

202

‘in his favour’
: BHVP MS691/134.

202

‘my good sense’
: BHVP MS691/192.

202

‘needs to employ’
: BHVP MS691/125–6.

202

‘proactive answers’
: ibid.

202

‘catechism’ . . . ‘led by impulse’
: ibid.

203

Montagne-au-Perche in Normandy
: on Georgel’s exile see Georgel, vol. 2, p.189ff and Hardy, 13 March 1786.

203

‘of me his prisoner’
: King James Bible, 2 Timothy, 1:8.

203

‘king in his own chapel’
: BHVP MS691/125–6.

203

‘my modest courage’
: BHVP MS691/201.

203–4
‘I ask you’ . . . ‘very weak head’
: AN X2B/1417/8/Bassenge.

204

‘them to declare’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.67.

204

The confrontations were
: the account of the confrontations derives in the main from the transcripts in the trial dossier in the Archives nationales. Jeanne’s confrontations with the witnesses are in X2B/1417/10 and with the accused in X2B/1417/86. Rohan’s confrontations with the witnesses are X2B/1417/84 and with Jeanne in X2B/1417/17.

205

handed over to Dupuis
:
Mémoires Secrets
, 20 March 1786.

205

‘hide her troubles’
: BHVP MS691/230.

205

‘of an innocent soul’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.186.

205

of Nicolas’s valet
: Mémoire Rohan, p.50.

205

She harangued . . . dress her forcibly
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.186ff;
Gazette de Leyde
, 14 April 1786; Hardy, 26 March 1786.

205

tears out of d’Oliva
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.187.

205–6
‘an honest woman’ . . . ‘of your intrigues’
: MGO II, p.15.

206

to her objections
: AN X2B/1417/10/Jeanne’s confrontation with Rosalie Brissault.

206

‘would be refuted’
: AN X2B/1417/17/44.

206

‘respond to his desires’
: AN X2B/1417/10/Jeanne’s confrontation with the baron de Planta.

206

‘absolutely false’
: ibid.

206

‘hidden behind smiles’
: Georgel, vol. 2, p.188.