APPENDIX. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE 387

SELECTION FROM THE LETTERS PRETENDED TO HAVE PASSED BETWEEN THE QUEEN AND THE CARDINAL DE ROHAN 390

EPITOME OF THE FIRST PROCÈS-VERBAL DESCRIPTIVE OF THE DOCUMENTS TENDING TO ESTABLISH CRIMINALITY 395

SOME SATIRICAL VERSES TO WHICH THE NECKLACE AFFAIR GAVE RISE 402

MEMORIAL CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF SAINT-REMI DE VALOIS 405

ABSTRACT OF THE DECLARATION MADE BY BETTE D’ÉTIENVILLE IN THE NECKLACE AFFAIR 409

“Though the descendant of a king, I have been a beggar, a servant, a mantua-maker’s apprentice, and the favourite of royalty.... The names of a great queen and of a prince-cardinal unhappily united with mine have spread a blaze around it to attract general notice; and as if I was doomed to be the victim of painful splendour, the ingenuity of my enemies have found means to forge the chains of my dishonour out of a Diamond Necklace.”—“Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. i. p. 267, and p. 6 of Preface.

“Faites attention à ce misérable Collier, je ne serais nullement surpris qu’il renversât le trône.”—_Talleyrand to Chamfort._ “Histoire Monarchique et Constitutionnelle de la Révolution Française,” par E. Labaume, vol. ii. p. 139.

“I would caution them to despise those who, hacknied in systematic scandal, feast upon the bleeding reputations of their sisters mangled and torn by calumny; let them demand of those who convey such vile insinuations some proof of the circumstances which they relate; let them sift them thoroughly to the bottom; _let them inquire the character of the tale-bearer; let them ask how, where, and when, and whether she knows the woman whom she has so eagerly attempted to disgrace_.”—“Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,”