"Napoleon wrote that military blunders AND" "Domestic catastrophes found a flame in" "French Revolution" "But the Cou de Gras was a curious palace scandal involving the woman of nobility denied a member of royal family and most magnificent string of jewels in all of Europe" "This notorious entry came to be known as affair du calle" "Paris 1786" "Jean Valois we have gathered here to bring judgement on you and other offendants as instructed by" "his majesty Louis XVI" "Do you care to make remarks to this judging body" "I do" "Was the vision of home denied me?" "In the eyes of God and world" "I want my life back as it should have been" "The following is based on true events" """The Valois Family Estate""" "The name Valois first came to me many years ago" "From this noble lineage there emerges one whom" "I and all of French would come to know" "Jean Valois" "Donna Valois was a reformist a rare champion of the common folks" "Who are they Pap?" "The monarchy believed the name Valois would be buried with young girl's father" "But the monarchy would grew to be wrong" "That winter her mother's broken heart" "gave a vowel" "Jean Valois grew up alone and accomplished quickly" "She sets her sight on one person she felt would make everything right" "The queen of all France Marie Antoinette" "She goes by the name Lamont" "I'm told she's in position to a marriage of convenience" "Her husband comes and goes as he pleases with whomever he pleases" "The poor dear" "Her eyes very exciting" "Majesty" "There's no need to worship at my feet" "In my years of service to the crown" "I've watched them come and go" "You again I've told you before to maintain your distance from Majesty" "They trancing one another in an attempt to gain royal favor" "Forgive me I was overcome by important matter" "But she was different" "Her Majesty does not care to know you" "I will hear that from her own lips" "I your escort by command" "It never works to get Queen's attention" "I know the truth" "My father's estate was to serve the Royal Family" "I was to petition for its return" "The Queen once she learns of the injustice" ""That's fresh, new and naive"" "It's remarkable how quickly you made yourself tiredsome" "Are you familiar with necklace?" "It's not uncommon for people to buy such titles" "What you suggest is insulting" "You've come to far if I call out he'd come" "He's back then I saw him a week ago in Reamboiv" "He seems be in company of an actress" "The entry of the young comtesse was to coincide with another significant arrival" "It was an amazing extravagance" "A glorious tribute to the vanity of man" "This is the culmination of my life" "Its combined weight is no less than 2800 karats" "It is a marvel thank you" "I'm sure you have no trouble finding a buyer" "I think it'll always find a place with you" "How curious" "It was suggested to me that the piece was for" "Madame Dejavi" "I pray that it was gossip" "If Her Majesty would try the necklace on" "It is a phenomenon still I decline" "We are the appointed jewelers your Majesty" "Our reputation will be shattered" "I do not commission this necklace" "I'm aware of your presence" "I can hear your thinking" "You don't how long I waited for this opportunity" "Please tell me have you considered my petition?" "It's unusual madam for you to come here on your own behalf" "In my experience women do not possess the temperament for negotiations" "It will be more appropriate to discuss this matter with Count Dulamont" "Count is in Rambuiev" "It is my family's home I wish to return" "You father was a treacherous liar" "He was man who only wanted to better the world around him" "You of all people know the importance of a" "God given name and home which you can flourish" "It defines us" "No doubt your request comes from heart" "There are higher considerations" "I implore you Mr if I have no seed to pass on the name Valois dies with me" "In eyes of Royal Family that'd be favorable result" "This royal office will not grant your petition" "It never will" "The Royal Family has been aware of this meeting by crushing the hopes of comtesse they thought to end the Valois legacy and all that is due for" "It's simple to influence someone like minister" "You must first have influence" "Hence lesson one the benefator" "Macki the most generous man with most generous appetite" "Despite his flirtations maintains but a single lover" "His benefactor Macki" "Welcome to court" "Here appearance is everything" "I mean no offense comtesse but" "Your living arrangements must improve" ""Plainly said you need money, to attain it"" "You need to find favor with somebody who has it" "Look three century sirens of the sea" "How long do you intend to suffer winds of women?" "Suffer?" "I bring joy into hearts of ladies" "I shall stop to suffer the winds of women when... someone more intriguing enters my world" "Am I to suppose you have no one to care for now?" "There was one the self proclaimed Duchess of" "She entertained only noble at her pleasures" "Mother she taught me in life" "from noble men that came to our rooms" "I observed polished manner" "Who can say one of this drooling fox passing by could well be my father" "Even you can not mask such loneliness" "Are we that much alike comtesse?" "Louis de Noi cardinal of all France" "His party was a lavish" "They've arrived one hour late" "This should be entertaining" "Why such a chill between cardinal and Queen?" "Years ago while on a religious pilgrimage" "Ron he gestured Marie Antoinette's mother the Emperess had begged her return" "She's never forgiven him" "Despite his desperate effort" "He wishes to follow in footstep to become" "Prime Minister" "And Anotoinette blocks his progress?" "at every turn" "I have come just as you requested my dear" "They would cut my hands off if" "I am caughttaking this" "But he was so hot in his request" "I could not refuse him" "Comtesse unknown to her majesty" "You are about to become her closest confident" "My curiosity about your eminence" "My curiosity about your eminence" """The Rohan Chateau at Saverne""" "You distracted me" "Then I have fufilled my obligation as a woman" "I am unfamiliar with you madam" "You are right to assume I have intruded my curiosity about sense of formality" "What could ignites such curiosity?" "I've heard it said you are man of copious desires" "Some desires run deeper than others" "I accompany the Queen most days at Versaille" "These are letter she's written to me I was abroad" "Why bring them to my attention?" "The damaged feeling between you and Antoinette are well known but old wounds may be healing" "I do feel with persuation you can make progress with her majesty" "You would apply this gentle pressure with return for what?" ""Your eminence, gratitude is all I require"" "your patrionage from time to time" "Your offer is compelling but I must decline" "A man of my office is often the target" "Please leave us" "I wish to offer a word of comfort in private" "I was wrong to come here I can see that now" "I can not be comfortable in presence of man who doubts me" "In times of doubts prayer is the answer" "Kneel before me" "I will rest my hands in your shoulders" "We'll pray together" "I respectfully decline your eminence" "I am the cardinal of all France" "Pray deeply and with conviction" "Where did you get this?" "Antoinette's chambers" "She does the embroidery with her own stitch" "A reminder of what could have been" "Wait maybe there's a way" "a mean by which we can verify your plan" "It happens I've taken patrionage extraordinary man" "who claims to have conquered disease and death" "His visions have proven accurate" "I sensed many of you have questions concern love fate even betrayal" "But these answers will have to wait" "I'm drawn to a face that's new" "I'm certain many people bring favor" "Your alliance is what concerns us tonight" "I haven't spoken a word about you to this man" "He truly is a marvel" "All particularly well informed" "I sense such turmoil within you" "I sense fear as well" "I'm not afraid in fact this is one of more delightful evening I've spent" "Early on you learn to hide" "But I feel great losses in your life" "I doubt there's person in this room who has not" "lost something or someone they feel can't be replaced" "You're taken by strangers then cast aside" "Always you are on the outside looking in longing for that which was taken from you" "Still that hurt most I see you" "wishing it was your own but it was not" "A grave dug for your mother's coffin" "Have I come far enough?" ""Well done, who's next?"" "Oh that's working splendid smooth and even monsieur a job done with consciousness is a job that endures" "They are such a comfort to me a wonderful distraction" "Has been a small gathering Nearly 200" "No doubt my name was used in vain" "Why do people have to be?" "Did you denounce me to the cardinal?" "I told the cardinal despite your troubled past" "I did sense an opportunity" "If you like my vision you two must cheer" "I admit I was caught by intimate details you knew about my life" "Then I realize Martiz a charitable woman who took me as a child she was very superstitious magician and mesmerism often entertain in parlor" "What's that to me?" "A person of your colorful nature may have found a way to her home in the course of your prognostication you may have asked her a few questions" "I see what you mean you like to trade secrets keep in mind I have this confidence the court is full of people just like you who'd tear you to pieces if I fed them enough lies" "Be careful I've done this for a long time" "That is precisely why I will do it" "I have nothing to lose" "Keep the cardinal interested in me and you would share in the rewards but remember our fates will now be joined as one" "I see a surprising alliance" "Cardinal of France it has come to the silence has gone far to long" "seem the proper starting point if we are to mend damage" "A prince of house of Roy apologize never been done" "For years you have languished because Antoinette has given you a look" "You're now holding letter from her" "I submit Antoinette's loathing of me has become somewhat more of an irritation" "You need not suffer anymore would reply be delivered by your own hand?" "You will reach Majesty no other way" "Very well a note of credit will be submitted" ""in sum of 500020,000 would be more appropriate"" "Are you attempting bargain with me?" "Not long ago a young woman like yourself attempted to extort money from me" "mistreatment at my hand" "Her accusation was of course unfounded" "She was niece of a captain of my private guard" "One night her uncle slipped into this young woman's room" "Do you know why a man would do such a thing to his own kid?" "Because I told you to" "never test my good nature comtesse" "I must ask you be mindful I can shatter this correspondence just as easily" "The hopeful comtesse keeping the cardinal at arm's length drew then even close" "As Ron's correspondence with Queen grew more intimate" "Those on streets of Paris saw her majesty in a far different light" "Antoinette responded by clustering herself behind the guilded gates of the assylum" "In that privileged assylum" "Little wonder the Queen failed to notice a urging threat in her very midst" "Nicholas how dare you" "You're not welcomed here go back to your actress" "You're once again my reason to live" "Nicholas do not do this" "Forgive me madam I heard the noise" "Rosalin you just shot my husband" "Do not presume to tell me how to get it out" "Madam there's gentleman here to see you" "How lovely Monsier Basom" "It's never a pleasant procedure No" "My partner could not join me" "I pray his discomfort is not serious" "If it is in my power to improve the situation you may rely on me" "I like you to be aware a lucrative proposition" "I ask you to keep strict confidence" "We would like you to reintroduce the idea of necklace to her majesty" "You could be short of a generous commission" "Please comtesse would you help us?" "The interests alone are what we pay for diamonds" "It's robbing us" "So there was the fateful meeting" "The comtesse warned by grace of God and the necklace formed by hand of man" "One without the other could do little harm but together" "It was fantastic" "That necklace can improve a person's position in life" "Are we not already blessed with the benefactor" "No this is a very dangerous idea" "A charming fellow once told me something worthwhile" "The way to get to what you desire is to first know what everyone else desires" "The jewelers know only Queen can relieve them of their glamorous creation" "then we have our benefactor" "Lois cardinal of all France" "He desires one thing his will can't acquire prime ministership" "What he doesn't realize is Queen's secretly desires the necklace" "So if Roan could make the transaction possible the jewelers would have a home for necklace with the Queen Brilliant but one tiny flaw" "The Queen doesn't desire to return to jewelers" "You really must keep abreast current events" "It'd seem her majesty has a change of heart" "Why does Antoinette wish to attain this brutish trinket in such secrecy?" "These are sensitive times such extravagance could cause further unrest among the people" "Why is there eminence to such a venture?" "Antoinette seeks discreet in mediary a firm guarantee to jewelers should she be forced by circumstance" "I beg your pardon your eminence" "Madam has arrived for her religious tutorial" "Escort her to my private chapel" "I'll be along momentarily" "You'd improve you position with Queen" "Help her acquire this necklace your path to prime minister's post would be a short one" "I've grown exceedingly tired to trading that part with my head on my knees" "What do you have to say?" "I do sense opportunity stay on course" "No I denounce my own character in writing" "I paid you exorbitant amount for your influence yet my every request has been ignored" "Unless I meet her majesty face to face our arrangement is over" "Now if you excuse me I've a young girl awaits" "Don't you see this is opportunity that may never come again" "With that necklace" "I have a chance to get my home back" "It's all I ever wanted" "If cardinal wishes he should meet the Queen" "Let's say we convince Ron what would happen when their payments made out to Antoinette?" "I should imagine the storm would turn our way?" "Yes personally I'm not interested in being a catch face" "Don't you think he'd pay out the jewelers to cover up the affair?" "Yes I'm sure he would" "I've thought about that unpleasant eventuality but I feel we can persuade him forgiveness" "What would you propose me do about necklace?" "As hypocrite it sounds he may be help to us" "I'll speak with him alone this evening he'll be more receptive" "I knew something grand was upfront" "He'll play his part" "You need concentrate on not being yourself" "Don't be angry with me I'm the way I am" "Our marriage has always been an arrangement" "It took me on because I bought you that title" "I've never been more than a stepping stone in your life" "I want nothing more than make it a real marriage" "Now it is an arrangement" "All that remain was to secure the final conspirator the perfect man for the job was dispatched with haste" """Palace of Versailles""" "You are to wait here" "I must confess I am nervous I am shaking" "Her majesty would gaze upon you" "If she feels time is right she will signal" "I understand Be ready to flee the moment notice" "Say only what we rehearsed nothing more" "It is acting but must be convincing" "Forgiveness is rose without influence" "If I have offended you majesty" "I have suffered for it" "This is not necessary" "I remember you were a young girl of 14" "I was the young bishop then" "I hope there was a connection between that young girl and young man" "We must go now" "I say we separate go that way" "Stop for nothing" "You have attempted to deceive me comtesse" "Don't play games with me" "I know you're right" "Antoinette is secretly in love with me" "Denied if you will but" "Don't ask me to play the fool" "My Dearest Antoinette our meeting at the Grove of Venus was to me like the end of an epic journey to hear from her majesty her own lips" "And so a bargain was struck" "Jean informed the cardinal that Queen intend to pay for necklace in 2 months time on the day of feast of assumption" "As guarantor the cardinal was at risk for considerable sum" "When concerned the cardinal sought a higher power" "Great men always need those who can see beyond their own grand vision" "a divine prognostication" "If my vision hold meaning for you" "The seat of prime minister is in form of medallion" "long life my friend" "Did all go well?" "brilliant" "It is a dispatch from her majesty" "The item is to return" "His name is Argile he attends Queen's chambers" "I'm responsible for this object to sum of 1 million gold" "Lois I ask you again do you have confidence in this man?" "Answer carefully" "You'll be held accountable" "When it comes to devotion to woman he serves no one can compare" "You'll no doubt reap untold rewards" "To Jean the hold of necklace was not as glorious as what its parts could yield" "It was a means to an end" "Though I will not justify the actions of the young comtesse" "I later came to understand the reasoning" "Who does not aspire to take back what was taken from them?" "Who does not dream of returning home?" "My dear comtesse it has been several weeks since my meeting in private with her majesty still I have not heard a word" "Your continued absence from Paris" "Wherever it is you may be I trust you're spending your time furthering my course" "With feast of assumption I must insist that you correspond soon" "Until then I should Keep my daily duties for people of France with spiritual guidance" "Is this vision of your daughter?" "Yes" "You're very lovely my dear" "Have you ever considered life in theater?" "The situation here is plaster I can't reach that high so I designed a system of poliums by which you can be elevated" "That jeweler has been groaning like a jackal all afternoon" "Madam we're at penacle of happiness with our arrangement we take satisfaction in knowing most beautiful creation in the world" "Her majesty was at times conviently naive" "I wanted to account the incidence as just another act of a well bred fool" "But in growing climate of unrest no one could be trusted" "The king and whore Antoinette drained the life blood of our national character" "A lot of excitement this morning" "Yes long speech with such firing passion" "A few of the merchants have informed me that you have been selling diamonds" "precious stones I trade here and Amsterdam" "They're in my room in hotel" "You can accompany me there and clear up this manner" "I think we should monsler" "I nearly soil myself" "Nicholas you're scared I know you're upset but you must maintain your temper" "You won't sell diamonds in Paris anymore agreed?" "Say it agreed" "We must leave the country while we can" "Once this affair unravels Ron would have head stake to his chapel gate" "Let us not forget the cardinal led us to Queen" "This one proclaiming love to Antoinette would be particularly damaging" "Suppose that time cardinal doesn't give a damn" "We've laid our plans now we must trust them" "Jean would now have to enter a new arrangement with cardinal" "Patronage to blackmail" "The cardinal is about to find out who is victim of the fraud" "When he does he'll want blood" "I will not be part of this any longer" "Sorry to hear that I want to properly thank you for this very important task" "I am a concerned friend who writes in haste to warn you an impending plot involving yourself cardinal and the particular diamond necklace" "It is my relief that Antoinette has no interest" "He will no longer stand as guarantor" "The comtesse observed he to be man of nervous disposition" "Once cardinal realize he'd been duped he would pay off the jewelers to avoid public humiliation" "At a certain individual's nagging suspicion" "We have important business" "You have been acting strange lately" "Why are you going in such a hurry fashion?" "Pressing engagement for confidential client" "I have no idea your disposition was fraud" "I am fascinated I want to learn more" "Makes perfect sense what better occasion than the Feast of Assumption?" "Do you think it's possible?" "What else the King and Queen would summon you in such promptu manner?" "It is an historic day in house of" "Extremely historic" "You look troubled your evidence" "I want my mind cleared and free" "There's something we must do" "May I ask under what condition this statement was made?" "Did I deny your participation of this affair?" "No your majesty" "Do you disagree with anything in court statement?" "I do not" "Then you admit you used Queen's good name to acquire this necklace for your own game" "I must clear my case I deny" "How could you believe that I will choose you to practice my emissary you to whom I have not addressed a word?" "Your behavior seems familiar to Queen" "For sake of good name of my family" "Queen has given her instruction" "Leave the chamber cardinal" "Leave the chamber" "How dare you touch me" "The King has ordered your arrest" "That's impossible" "What the comtesse has so daringly conceived now begin to unravel at a frightening pace and those of dubious character would quick to distance themselves" "I heard news in Paris" "Ron has been sent to Bastille" "He has most certainly implicated us" "The hell with name Then go with flow" "I haven't asked you to stay" "Please tell me madam conspiracy was not all of it that held us" "Who'll protect you if I go?" "Nicholas?" "You didn't concern yourself with Nicholas" "Nicholas Let him go please" "Please you must not remain here" "Come over here with me now" "Tell me Jean I can not see the reason" "It only matters that I see it" "Please try to understand" "Jean Valois" "The people were led to believe cardinal" "Antoinette and necklace were joined as one in the celestial circle of lust and deceit" "The case must be tried in open Parliament" "That would be a great mistake" "It was King's sovereign right to pardon on this matter why place" "Because the people now only respect judgement of Parliament" "If Parliament convicts as sole perpetrator my name will be absolved" "And if they acquit him it is my tempt to say that you are guilty" "His majesty is correct" "You can not be tried of course but guilt would fall to you all the same" "Public vindication has been disturbed" "I will accept nothing less" "Jean's arrest fuels hysterious around him" "Some saw the comtesse as coming of opportunist" "Others as unwitting form of monarchy" "Dearest Comtesse" "I think it is in my best interest to make a hasty departure" "I do wish you a positive outcoming at trial that lies ahead" "Having said that it is my sincere hope that" "I never see you again" "Farewell comtesse for France has seemed at last" "The count's hasty departure took him no further than his own front door" "He was promptly arrested and delivered to his new accommodation the Bastille" "On this 22nd day of May 1786" "The matter of the crime Jean Valois" "vision of home denied me and sense of peace" "I've never known" "In eyes of God and the world I wanted my life as it should have been" "How was it you went to this arrangement?" "Daily reports to her majesty became a ritual and pressure for favorable outcome a royal obsession" "Shortly after I arrange necklace to comtesse" "Count de la Mois visited brokerage" "My investigator has told me 4 diamonds of quality" "Cardinal we must have proof of your charge" "Can you provide any changeable evidence?" "Yes the letters for Queen the comtesse must have forged them somehow" "Produce them then" "I am unable to do so" "It was day of Feast of Assumption" "The day when this horror begin" "I assumed I was to receive this prime ministership and to protect her majesty" "I ordered the letters to be burned" "It was only after my arrest I realize" "I have destroyed the only evidence that could clear my name" "If I be allowed more time I'm sure I could gather" "Is this the woman you encountered in Grove of Venus?" "Yes I'm certain of it" "State your name please" "Nichole Lecuis A common street performer" "Has this become public?" "Regrettably yes" "Although revealing the Queen's impersonater to aid cardinal's cause" "it was not without forth faught" "By doing so I was able to imploy one more bit of scagory" "Aren't you curious how we found Nichole Lecuis?" "One of your conspirator was arrested at" "He willingly instructed as imposter" "He made us aware of your fraudulous notes to cardinal in the name of Queen" "Further more he has stated the one cardinal he willingly fell with your plans to steal the necklace Who is this person?" "This is a ruinous lie" "This is a treacherous imagination" "Who's this person Why are they not in attendance?" "He has expressed desire not to see you" "During trial is it not my right to confront the accuser?" "What have they done?" "Forgive me" "I love you" "The House Minister visits the Bastille" "Before sentence is surrendered you will have chance to say a confession implicate cardinal to the crime in a clear manner" "I will not" "It would seem your only chance to salvation" "I was thinking how strange your majesty all the times I have sought you out in the end it is you who completed the effort" "I was compelled to look upon architecture of such scales" "Must be you our eyes are not clever enough" "That is for Parliament to say" "Say what you are you have damaged my reputation" "I need to know why" "Speak the truth for once" "You ignored me to offer a world of advice" "You must not consider the brutal consequences of this matter" "If you weaken the monarchy" "I've seen what I came to see" "Your majesty I didn't set out to harm you" "As concerned charges of theft and conspiracy the decision rendered by this body of judges should be carried out without hesitation or appeal" "Count Carois" "You are here acquited in grounds of insufficient evidence you are to be considered exhilarated by judges" "Wise and just decision" "Now Count de la Vilot" "By the Court of France you have been found guilty and hereby condemned to banishment to life" "all your possessions and goods are to be reported to the King" "The judgement of Parliament is final" "Justice has been served" "This body of judges acquit you of all offenses" "you are hence considered exhilarated" "Jean Valois" "Your verdict has been rendered" "It will not be read at this time" "You are to be attained here in consiersery until informed otherwise" "This verdict is delayed by order of King himself" "His majesty now fear the people and how they react when told of Jean's fate" "Meanwhile Ron's vindication sent a clear message to Versaille" "Though Antoinette was not on trial the people saw her as guilty of excess greed and worst of all indifference" "Comtesse it's time" "Jean Valois you have been found guilty on all charges" "Before her sentence was read the comtesse was allowed to address court one last time" "Whatever fate awaits me it can not compare to the pain when all you hold dear is taken and" "you have nothing left" "Risk is of little consequence when a ray of hope came into view" "I'd reach for it with all my might" "I realize now it is too late" "Honor does not live in a name it comes from what you carry in your heart" "The mark of a thief" "And so ended the life of Marie Antoinette" "I did not witness the Queen's demise" "As I have long fled the horror of new regime and though rumors circulated to eventual fate of young comtesse" "The truth was rather common and sad" "She was taken to south Patria" "A woman in most horrible conditions where she languished for nearly 2 years" "We heard rumors of outside but have no ideas of the vast changes taking place" "It was not until I effected my escape and reached safety of English soil" "It was there in England she published her memoirs" "For a brief moment found acceptance that had deluded her for so many years" "A remarkable account Thank you" "How sad you are separated from your home" "Will you ever return to France madam?" "I should like to someday" "The Affair of the Necklace shattered the fragile credibilitiy of the French Monarchy" "The trial was rallying point for the" "Revolution which followed" "Jean Valois the woman who helped topple Monarchy never returned to France" "She died of a fall from window of a London hotel" "Some claimed it was an act of revenge by patriates of royal family" "The truth was never known"