Read How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair Online
Authors: Jonathan Beckman
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-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
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