How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (60 page)

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Authors: Jonathan Beckman

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Index

Achet, Louis-François,
103–5

Adhémar, Jean-Balthazar, comte d’,
253
,
255–7
,
272

Agliata, marquis d’,
112

Agoult, comte d’,
153–5

Aiguillon, duc d’,
29
,
33–4
,
36

Aligre, Etienne François d’,
166
,
169
,
227
,
243
,
245

Alsace,
264–6
,
297

American War of Independence,
45
,
59

Amours de Charlot et Toinette
,
Les
(
libelle
),
279

Angelique (Jeanne’s maidservant),
270

animal magnetism,
119

Arnaud, Baculard d’:
Délassemens de l’homme sensible
,
193

Arragon, d’ (secretary in French Embassy in London),
253–4
,
256

Artois, Charles, comte d’,
36
,
43
; character,
53
; supports
The Marriage of Figaro
,
92
; on Jeanne’s impending fate,
226
; on fate of Jeanne,
269
; as supposed lover of Marie Antoinette,
279
; succeeds as Charles X,
301

Artois, Thérèse of Savoy, comtesse de,
57

Asturias, princess de,
102

Austria: foreign policy,
32–3
; French invade (1796),
299

Autichamp, marquis d’,
22

Balsamo, Seraphina (
née
Lorenza Feliciani; Countess Cagliostro): marriage to Cagliostro,
112
; travels with Cagliostro,
120
; diamonds found in possession of,
160
; charged,
183
; Rohan alleged to have trusted,
197
; and Cagliostro’s denying deceiving Rohan,
199
; in Bastille,
260
; betrays Cagliostro,
294–5
; remanded in perpetuity,
296

Bar-sur-Aube, Champagne,
18
,
99
,
142
,
149

Barry, Marie Jeanne, comtesse du,
28
,
34
,
101
,
176
,
261
,
272

Barthélemy, François,
174
,
186

Barthes, Roland,
194

Bassenge, Paul: makes necklace with Boehmer,
3
,
101
; difficulty in selling necklace,
103–6
,
108
,
127–8
,
130
; suspicions over trickery,
134
; visits Jeanne,
136–7
; deposition,
139n
,
178
; distrusts Jeanne,
140
,
143
; visits Rohan,
142–3
; believes Rohan acts honourably,
170
; confirms Jeanne’s claim to intimacy with
queen,
176
; in Jeanne’s testimony to Titon,
195
,
198
; changes testimony on Rohan’s relationship with queen,
203–4
; Rohan challenges deposition,
207
; maintains claim against Rohan’s heirs,
302
;
see also
Boehmer, Claude

Bastille: Rohan detained in,
155–7
,
180
,
182
; Jeanne held in,
158–60
,
180–2
; visitors to Rohan,
182
; Cagliostro condemns,
260
; stormed (1789),
266
,
281

Bataille, Georges,
308

Bavaria: crisis (1778),
56
,
60

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de,
233n
,
261
;
The Barber of Seville
,
144
;
The Marriage of Figaro
,
92–3
,
96

Beausire, Toussaint de,
174–5
,
281

Benevent, François (‘Costa’; agent),
251–5
,
258

Benevent, Madame (‘Madame Costa’),
252–4

Bérengar, Jean-Louis Loiseau de,
70

Bernard, Samuel (comte de Coubert),
13

Bertin, Rose,
14
,
58
,
91
,
239

Bertrand (Longchamp’s associate),
285–6

Besenval, Pierre, baron de,
59

Beugnot, Jacques: on Nicolas’s appearance,
20
; Mme de Surmont complains to of Jeanne,
19–20
,
22–3
,
44
,
46–7
; supports Jeanne,
22–3
; lends horse and trap to Jeanne,
44
; and Jeanne’s relations with Rohan,
46–7
; on Villette,
63
; on Rohan’s letters to Marie Antoinette,
74
; surprise at Jeanne’s wealth,
99
; and Jeanne’s social ambitions,
100
; exaggerates role in affair,
139
,
152n
; and La Mottes’ move to Bar,
150
; advises Jeanne to leave country and burn papers,
151–2
; and Jeanne’s hearing of Rohan’s arrest,
151
; criticises Joly de Fleury,
168
; prepares to flee,
169
; declines to defend Jeanne in trial,
170
; urges Nicolas to flee country,
184
; on Rohan verdict,
245
; as minister in Louis XVIII’s government,
300

Billaud-Varenne, Jean-Nicolas (or Jacques-Nicolas),
155

Bléton, Barthélemy,
118

Blin, Jacques-Nicolas,
166
,
216
,
217

Blondel (d’Oliva’s lawyer):
mémoire
,
236–7
,
239
; affair with d’Oliva,
280

Boehmer, Claude: makes necklace,
3
,
101
; difficulty in selling necklace,
102–8
,
127–8
,
130
; summoned to Breteuil,
130–1
,
133
; and Rohan’s memorandum on necklace affair,
131–2
; and Marie Antoinette’s inability to pay for necklace,
136
; visits Mme Campan,
137–40
; suspects swindle,
140
; sees Marie Antoinette,
144
; statement to Marie Antoinette,
146
,
197
; pleads for compensation,
170–1
; and Rohan case,
170
; Georgel seeks goodwill for Rohan’s trial,
172
; uncertain memory,
178
; in Rohan’s testimony to Titon,
189–90
; in Jeanne’s testimony to Titon,
195
; gives evidence for Rohan’s trial,
202
; bankruptcy
and death,
302
,
see also
Bassenge, Paul

Bombelles, marquis de,
101

Boulainvilliers, Anne Gabriel Henri Bernard, marquis de: takes Jeanne in,
13
,
16
,
56
; manufactures illicit alcohol,
17
; makes advances to Jeanne,
39–40

Boulainvilliers, Henri, comte de,
13

Boulainvilliers, marquise de: as Jeanne’s benefactress,
13–14
,
16
,
18
,
39
; stays with Cardinal de Rohan,
23
; illness and death,
39
; introduces Jeanne to Rohan,
188

Bourbon, Louis Henri, duc de,
182

Brandeis, Countess,
52

Breteuil, Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de: summons Boehmer to Versailles,
130
; character and career,
131
; takes deposition from Sainte-James,
133–4
; Boehmer advised to confess to,
138
,
144
; close relations with Marie Antoinette,
144
,
163
; takes statement from Boehmer,
145
; agrees to Rohan’s arrest,
147–8
,
153–4
; orders Rohan’s transfer to Bastille,
155
; anger at destruction of Rohan’s papers,
157
; Boehmer appeals to,
170
; and interrogation and trial of Rohan,
180
,
203
; allows Georgel to correspond with Rohan in Bastille,
183
; and Nicolas’s elusiveness,
184
; banishes Georgel,
203
; call to arrest Rohan,
230
; intrigues with judges over Rohan verdict,
245–6
; carries king’s
lettre de cachet
to Rohan,
247
; and Jeanne’s sentence,
249
; and Nicolas’s return to France,
252
; Cagliostro criticises,
259–60
; La Mottes talk with,
274
; in Jeanne’s
Mémoires Justificatifs
,
278

Brionne, comtesse de,
182

Brissault, Rosalie,
141
,
206

Bruginères, Inspector Jean-François de,
123–4

Brunswick manifesto,
291

Burrows, Simon,
279

Bussy-Rabutin, Roger de,
193

Cagliostro, Alessandro, Count (
né
Giuseppe Balsamo): background and career,
111
; as Freemason,
114–15
; rites,
114–15
,
121–2
; manner,
115–16
,
120
; healing,
116–17
; Rohan and,
117–18
,
171
,
233
; in Paris,
120
; believes Rohan tricked,
134–5
,
199
; Jeanne spreads rumours of Rohan’s gifts of diamonds to,
136
; Jeanne traduces,
137
,
215
; suggests Rohan turn La Mottes in to police,
142
; and Rohan’s arrest,
151
; Jeanne on Rohan’s infatuation with,
159–60
,
195
; arrested,
160
;
decret de prise de corps
against,
180
; in Bastille,
181
,
260
; in Jeanne’s testimony to Titon,
198
; interrogated by Titon,
199
; confrontation with Jeanne,
212–13
; and Villette,
219–20
; Jeanne exonerates,
224
; interrogated by whole court,
227–9
; Doillot accuses of amassing fortune,
234
;
mémoire
defends,
235
; acquitted,
242–3
; returned to Bastille,
244
; ordered to leave France,
259
; in England,
260–3
; seeks restitution,
260–1
; challenges Morande,
262–3
;
leaves Switzerland for Rome,
294
; betrayed by Seraphina,
294–5
; charged in Rome and sentenced to lifetime imprisonment,
295–7
; death,
297–8
; in Dumas novel,
303
; Goethe’s interest in,
304
; Carlyle denounces,
305
;
Letter to the French People
,
259