Memoirs of the Countess de Valois de La Motte; containing a compleat justification of her conduct, and an explanation of the intrigues and artifices used against her by her enemies, relative to the diamond necklace; also the correspondence between the queen and the Cardinal de Rohan and concluding with an address to the king of France, supplicating a re-investigation of that apparently mysterious business. / Tr. from the French, written by herself ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791.

Contributor:

Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802.

Serres de Latour, ------ de, active 1790.

Standardized Title:

Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785.

Physical Description:

viii, 231, that is, 261 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 48 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Ridgway, 1789.

Notes:

p. 260-261 incorrectly numbered 230-231.

Original English version, with autograph signature of the "Comtesse de Valois de La Motte" on p. 231 (i.e. 261)

"Prefatory address," signed: "Countess de Valois de La Motte," p. [v]-viii.

"Justificatory pieces" ("Memorial concerning the house of Saint Remy de Valois" and spurious correspondence between the Queen Marie Antoinette and Cardinal Rohan): 48 p. at end.

The authorship of Mme. de La Motte, with the reputed assistance of the journalist Serres de Latour and the ex-minister Calonne, is doubtful. cf. Funck-Brentano, La mort de la reine, 1902, p. 111, etc.; L. de la Sicotière in Quérard, Supercheries, Paris, 1870, t. II, col. 647-649.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: p. iii-viii wanting.

OCLC:

3985623