Marie Antoinette & Jeanne Valois-Saint-Rémy. Affair of the Diamond Necklace: A Sammelband of Six Pamphlets, 1786-1791.
Including:
1) Mémoire pour le Comte de Cagliostro, Paris: Lottin, 1786;
2) Réponse pour la Comtesse de Valois-La Motte, au Mémoire du Comte de Cagliostro, Paris: Cellot, 1786;
3) Défense à une Accusation d'Escroquerie, Pariss: Cellot, 1786;
4) Supplément aux Mémoires du Sieur de Bette d'Etienville, Ancien Chirurgien Sous-Aide-Major, Paris: Cailleau, 1785;
5) Réponse de M. Le Comte de Précourt, Paris: Chez Prault, 1776;
6) Memoire de M. Calonne, Ministre d'Etat, [No Imprint], circa 1791; all six bound in full contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, 10 x 8 in.
Although Queen Marie Antoinette was the victim of the tortured confidence scam engineered by Jeanne Valois-Saint-Rémy [aka Jeanne de la Motte] with the ill-fated diamond necklace at its center, she never recovered from the public scandal. Years before the overthrow of the monarchy in the French Revolution, the public had settled on an image of their Queen as greedy, devious, wasteful, and an enemy of the French people. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace sealed her fate.
