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ture, has been fully acquitted. But,' she dignities at court, was exiled to the Abbey added vehemently, 'as a Frenchwoman, re of Chaise-Dieu. ceive my condolences. A nation is truly Madame de la Motte remained in the unfortunate to have for a supreme tribunal Conciergerie for a short time, and was then a body of men who consult only their own removed to Salpetriere, whence she escaped in 1787 and fled to England, where she passions — '" "At this moment," adds Madame de wrote some scandalous " Memoirs," repre Campan, " the king entered, approached senting herself as the instrument and the victim of Marie Antoinette. The end of the queen and took her hand." this miserable woman was worthy of her "This affair," he said, " has been outra life; she was thrown out of a window, in geously judged; it is easily explained, how ever. It needs no Alexander to cut this the midst of an orgy, by her debauched companions and killed. gordian knot. Parliament saw in the cardi nal only a prince of the Church, a Prince de As for M. de la Motte he escaped his Rohan, when it should have seen in him a punishment by remaining in England until the Revolution opened to him once more man unworthy of his high ecclesiastical po sition, a prince degraded by his shameful the gates of France. It was his fortune to survive all the actors in this shameful vices." Up to the last moment, it is seen, the plot, and he died in 1832. king and the queen considered the cardi In 1848 the affair of the queen's necklace nal guilty, not only of insolence, but of had an epilogue which again recalled these swindling. deplorable memories. A citation from the It was then as a swindler and a forger, Court of Radstadt, in the Duchy of Baden, shamefully absolved by a court of the coun convoked the creditors of the house of. try, that the king and the queen resolved to Rohan, among whom, it was observed, were the heirs of the jewellers Boehmer and punish this man who had braved their ven geance. The cardinal, deprived of all his Bassange.