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Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte

Title
Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte / ecrits par elle-meme.
Author
La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791.
Publication
Imprimes a Londres, 1788.

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no. 1-6TextUse in library CI p. v. 31 no. 1-6Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Serres de La Tour, Alphonse de.
  • Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802.
Description
232, 46 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Le Telemaque (Ship)
  • Diamond Necklace Affair (France : 1785)
  • 1785
  • Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785
  • France
Note
  • Privately printed.
  • Autograph signature of the "Comtesse de Valois de La Motte" on p. 232.
  • "Pièces justificatives" ("Memoire sur la maison de Saint-Remy de Valois" and spurious correspondence between the Queen Marie Antoinette and Cardinal Rohan): 46 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.
  • Mounted on fly leaves newspaper clippings telling of the attempts to raise the ship Le Telemaque, sunk at Quillebœuf, and believed to be laden with treasure belonging to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, including the necklace.
Call Number
CI p. v. 31, no. 1-2
LCCN
04009606
OCLC
1325357
Author
La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791.
Title
Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte / ecrits par elle-meme.
Imprint
Imprimes a Londres, 1788.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1785
Added Author
Serres de La Tour, Alphonse de.
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, 1734-1802.
Other Form:
Online version: La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791. Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte. Imprimes a Londres, 1788 (OCoLC)862768043
Research Call Number
CI p. v. 31, no. 1-2
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