The Story of the Diamond Necklace, Told in Detail for the First Time, By the Aid of Contemporary Memoirs, Original Letters, And Official And Other Documents; And Comprising a Sketch of the Life of the Countess De La Motte, Pretended Confidant of Marie-Ant
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i. p. 389, et s&i. 186 THiJ STORY OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE. At noon the lieutenant of the Bastille came to fetch the countess to an interview, as she asserts she thought, with the Baron de Breteuil, instead of which she was conducted into the' presence of the lieutenant of police and the Commissary Chenon, who com- menced examining her respecting the Diamond Necklace, and ended by accusing her of having first obtained possession of, and afterwards absconding to a foreign country with the missing... jewel. Madame de la Motte, perfectly unabashed, says that she laughed outright in the commissary's face at what she styles the "ridiculous absurdity" of such an accusation. Her examination was continued day by day, and when completed, the commissary, as the countess artfully states, " gabbled over something which she scarce understood," but which she nevertheless signed. " It was this cunning dissembler," she remarks, " who made me sign those odious things which I was supposed to have said myself, and which were so detestable that when they were read by his majesty he spat upon them, saying, *Fie upon the filthy creature T"^ The countess, who in early life was glad to feed upon broken victuals passed through a trap-hole in the miserable hovel that sheltered the Saint-Remi family at Fontette, appears not to have entirely approved of the cuisine of the Bastille.
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