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	Comtesse de la Motte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeanne de Valois, Comtesse de la Motte or Lamotte (1756 - 1791) was a French noblewoman.
		In 1780, she married Nicholas de Lamotte and both husband and wife assumed the title Comte and Comtesse de La Motte Valois.
		The Comtesse de Lamotte, Rétaux de Villette, Nicole d'Oliva and Count Cagliostro (a self-proclaimed holy man who had helped the Comtesse persuade the Cardinal to purchase the necklace) were all arrested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comtesse_de_la_Motte (692 words)

	Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		La Fayette, Marie Madeleine (Pioche de la Vergne), comtesse de
		La Fayette, Marie Madeleine (Pioche de la Vergne), comtesse de (1634-1693), French novelist, born in Paris.
		Roland de La Platière, Jeanne Manon Philipon (1754-1793), French revolutionary and social figure, born in Paris.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Guyon_Jeanne_Marie_Bouvier_de_la_Motte.html (171 words)

	AllRefer.com - Diamond Necklace, Affair of the (French History) - Encyclopedia
		Mme de La Motte and her accomplices then engineered a sham correspondence between the cardinal and the queen and even arranged an interview between him and a woman impersonating the queen.
		In the interview the cardinal was led to believe that the queen wished to acquire a diamond necklace of enormous value and that she had chosen him as her confidential agent.
		Mme de La Motte was punished and imprisoned, but she escaped to London, where she wrote her highly questionable memoirs.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DiamondN.html (408 words)

	Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Louis XVI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fin de la Guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis d'Amérique.
		Joseph-Gilbert Motier, marquis de La Fayette remet à Louis XVI la nouvelle "cocarde tricolore" aux couleurs de la ville de Paris, rouge et bleu.
		La Fayette avait fait ajouter le blanc par révérence envers Louis XVI, le blanc étant la couleur des Bourbons.
	www.encyclopedie.cc /Louis_XVI (869 words)

	Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: Diamond Necklace Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Affair of the Diamond Necklace was a sensational, elaborate confidence game involving the Comtesse de la Motte, her husband, Cardinal Rohan, the Parisian jewelry firm of Böhmer and Bassenge, possibly Marie Antoinette, and a diamond necklace valued at 1,600,000 livres.
		His testimony was the first in the trial directly to incriminate the La Mottes and to suggest strongly that the cardinal was innocent of involvement in any fraud—although it also exposed the ostensibly canny cardinal as capable, on the personal level, of almost incredible credulity.
		La Motte's descent from "the blood of the Valois" might better have been presented in defense of the folly of her victims, for few of her impostures or illusions could have been persuasive were it not for the glamour and potential profitability of that well-publicized, and apparently genuine, association.
	www.prbm.com /interest/diamond.shtml (1443 words)

	Fascinating History: Marie Antoinette and The Diamond Necklace Affair
		Chief player in this story was a woman called Jeanne de Saint-Remy de Valois, comtesse de la Motte, who was a notorious con-woman, sleeping her way to the top while simultaneously claiming to be an aristocrat.
		At the time Jeanne was having an affir with the Cardinal de Rohan, a gullible man off whom she borrowed large amounts of money and quickly got herself into debt.
		De Rohan was acquitted but Jeanne de la Motte was convicted.
	fascinatinghistory.blogspot.com /2005/06/marie-antoinette-and-diamond-necklace.html (823 words)

	The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
		Mirabeau said of the Countess- "Madame de La Motte's voice alone brought on the horrors of July 14 and of October 5" (the storming of Versailles and the slaughter of the troops there by the 'Women's Army').
		Jean Charles Vincent de Bette d'Étienville became involved when he persuaded the Baron de Fages-Chaulnes to marry one of Cardinal Rohan's mistresses, as a result of which the Baron ran up a steep debt with Vaucher and Loque, a pair of jewelers.
		Comte de Précourt, a widely-traveled and distinguished infantry colonel, was swept into the Affair when he guaranteed the debt of his fellow soldier, the Baron de Fages-Chaulnes.
	www.joslinhall.com /necklace_books.htm (1644 words)

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		Concludes that aberrant deeds are on the increase due to a climate of tolerance.
		La directora de una organización sin motivos de lucro, presenta una colección de cien relatos recopilados de treinta paises que delinean los esfuerzos de personas quienes por sus acciones de benevolenica se dedican a la ayuda de sus vecinos y al mejoro de sus comunidades.
		Compendio de remedios caseros para curar más de 138 enfermedades y malestares comunes, desde la acedía a las verrugas.
	www.loc.gov /nls/tbt/2004/5sepoct.txt (16985 words)

	The Affair of the Necklace
		Everything was the result of the machinations of Comtesse Jeanne de la Motte-Valois, who was trying to regain her family honor.
		To gain access, she marries Count Nicholas de la Motte (Adrien Brody, Bread and Roses, Liberty Heights) to elevate her social status.
		De la Motte uses the corrupt Cardinal de Rohan (Jonathan Pryce, Bride of the Wind, Stigmata) to get to the Queen.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/affair_of_the_necklace.html (685 words)

	Marie Antoinette
		De Rohan himself, however, knew that her hate was genuine and therefore a barrier to his advancement at court, and so sought out every opportunity to place himself in her favor.
		It was into this situation that a con-woman for the ages, Jeanne de Saint-Remy, who styled herself the fictitious Comtesse de la Motte-Valois, implanted herself.
		De Rohan procured the necklace and then handed the thing over to Jeanne, expecting her to turn it over to the Queen.
	www.geocities.com /stenerin1/clear_marie.html (4229 words)

	Musées de France - Marie-Antoinette bracelet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A schemer at Versailles, the Comtesse de La Motte, gave Cardinal de Rohan, who was then in disgrace, the impression that the queen wanted the necklace, and asked him to acquire it in secrecy.
		When presented with the false missives, apparently written by the queen to Rohan, the jewellers handed over the necklace to the Comtesse de la Motte, whose husband rushed over to England to sell the diamonds.
		Although Cardinal de Rohan was acquitted, the queen, who was not very popular among the people, was slandered.
	www.museesdefrance.com /produits/details/BB400267 (197 words)

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		Jeanne de Valois arrested, as were various forgers, actors, and courtiers that were thought involved in the affair.
		The Comtesse de Lamotte was whipped, branded, and shut up in Salpetriere - she later escaped.
		The authorship of Comtesse de La Motte, with the reputed assistance of the ex-minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802) and the journalist Alphonse de Serres de Latour, is doubtful.
	www.netrax.net /~rarebook/s980401.htm (644 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - This is an Affair to forget
		Comtesse Jeanne De La Motte-Valois is a woman on a mission, a social climber with a cause at the court of France's King Louis XV and Queen Marie Antoinette.
		Retaux de Villete (Simon Baker, in pancake makeup and lip liner) is a renowned romancer of older, richer woman for their pleasure and his gain.
		In Jeanne, he sees something of himself and takes up her cause, making her over and educating her as to court intrigues and the uses to which such knowledge may be put.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/A/Affair_Of_The_Necklace/2001/11/30/pf-752112.html (467 words)

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		de Sevigne and valetudinarians of the Valois race generations before her time--_Souvigny_, cradle of the Bourbons, now one vast congeries of abbatial ruins--_Arcis-sur-Aube_, the sweet riverside home of Danton--its near neighbour, _Bar-sur-Aube_, connected with a bitterer enemy of Marie Antoinette than the great revolutionary himself, the infamous machinator of the Diamond Necklace.
		De Commines tells us that the cage invented by Cardinal Balue, and in which he languished for eleven years, was narrower still.
		The _juge de paix_ and his brother are now among the most respected citizens of Arcis, and have lived to witness the rehabilitation of their great ancestor.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/7epar10.txt (21085 words)

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		La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de
		La Vallière, Louise Françoise de La Baume Le Blanc de
		Lacépède, Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, comte de
	encyclopedia.variousstuff.net /l.html (132 words)

	THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE
		Jeanne de la Motte-Valois’ passionate desire to reclaim her family’s honor would alter the fate of a great Queen and fan the flames of revolution that would engulf an entire nation.
		Jeanne de la Motte-Valois may have carried out her seductions and manipulations in Pre-Revolutionary France, but they seem just as resonant today in an atmosphere rife with celebrity trials, infidelity among the powerful, and tell-all confessions that devastate reputations overnight.
		The diamond necklace affair of Jeanne de la Motte-Valois scandalized the court of Louis XVI on the eve of the French Revolution.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/download.php?id=312&q=notes.htm (10253 words)

	Affair Of The Necklace : Movie Information, Show Times & Reviews - Val-d Or - CinemaQuebec.com
		Everything was on the result of the machinations of Comtesse Jeanne de la Motte-Valois who had been trying to regain her family honor.
		Le film fait plus que démontrer un exemple de la vraie vie en ce temps là, comme tu dis, il dépeint une partie de l'histoire importante de la France qui s'est réellement déroulé.
		La comtesse de la Motte a réellement existé.
	www.cinemaclock.com /aw/crva.aw/p.cq/r.que/m.Val-d_Or/j.e/i.2773/s.0/f.Affair_Of_The_Necklace.html (830 words)

	IMDb user comments for The Affair of the Necklace (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		So, she marries the Compte de la Motte in order to get a title which will admit her to court.
		True, it's not completely historically accurate and they've made Jeanne la Motte much more likable and moral than she was, but that's the point of a MOVIE.
		She decides along with her lover Retaux de Vilette (Simon Baker) and the man she had married for convenience Nicolas De La Motte (Adrien Brody) would scheme a plan to convince the Cardinal Louis de Rohan (Jonathan Pryce) to purchase a very expensive necklace and give it to Marie-Antoinette (Joely Richardson).
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0242252/usercomments (3107 words)

	FanboyPlanet - The Affair of the Necklace
		At Retaux's advice, she ensnares a patron in the form of Cardinal De Rohan (Jonathan Pryce), a man of the cloth with terribly earthy desires.
		Cardinal de Rohan is said to host parties of "orgiastic dimension," but when we finally see one, everyone just lies around smoking opium.
		Never for a moment can we believe that she herself is the clever one, or even that she has the resolve to do whatever must be done to achieve her goals.
	www.fanboyplanet.com /movies/mc-affairnecklace.htm (981 words)

	IGN: The Affair of the Necklace Review
		Shunned by the court, she is driven to desperate acts of deception involving forged letters from the Queen; the Cardinal of all France, Louis de Rohan (played here by Jonathan Pryce); and a lavish diamond necklace (hence the title of the film).
		Virtually at every turn the filmmakers persist in running flashbacks of the Comtesse’s misfortune, so that we can conveniently and consistently be reminded of how her noble stature was stripped from her at an early age.
		The main thrust of the film’s protagonist was to generate an affair that would result in the reclamation of her name during a period of history when names and appearances meant the world.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/316/316587p1.html (690 words)

	Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		A number of the most distinguished Christian mystics have been women, notably St Hildegard, St Catherine of Siena, and St Teresa of Ávila.
		He was chosen to resolve a dispute in the Académie des...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Guyon_Jeanne_Marie_Bouvier_de_la_Motte.html (179 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: The Affair of the Necklace \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Hilary Swank does her best with the role of the justifiably scheming Comtesse Jeanne de la Motte-Valois.
		But the role, as written by John Sweet, is too geared toward surface impulses and tactical busywork to permit the Oscar winner to find the tragic grandeur in the character.
		Orphaned as a child and stripped of her noble rank in the process, she suffers a marriage of convenience to the philandering Count Nicolas de la Motte (Adrien Brody) in order to gain access to Marie Antoinette's court.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,250000106,00.html (363 words)

	The Paris Court of Appeal and the Courts having Jurisdiction: History - The Palace: from the Ancien Régime to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the May Courtyard, some of the sentences rendered by Parlement were carried out: the Comtesse de la Motte, after the Affair of the Necklace (1786), was sentenced to be flogged at the foot of the staircase of the May Courtyard.
		The tribunal, created by the Convention, was allocated the most prestigious rooms in the history of the Parlement of Paris: the Great Hall and the Saint-Louis Hall, renamed "chambre de la Liberté" and "chambre de l'Égalité".
		The public prosecutor had a tied apartment set up at Quai de l'Horloge, adjacent to the Bonbec Tower, where he could be closer to his victims to prepare the cases and accelerate the already precipitous proceedings.
	www.ca-paris.justice.fr /cour/fr/visite/uk/page/c_histoire_parlement.html (611 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marie Antoinette
		Ambassador Mercy and Abbé de Vermond, the former tutor of the archduchess in Austria and now her reader in France, endeavoured to make her follow the prudent counsels as to her conduct sent by her mother, Maria Theresa, and to enable her thus to overcome all the intrigues of the Court.
		In truth, it was to the interest of France not to permit the indefinite growth of the Prussian power; but the routine diplomats, believing that Austria was to be forever the enemy of France, and the philosophers, who were favourably disposed towards Prussia, as a Protestant nation, abhorred any display of sympathy for Austria.
		She may have received absolution from the Curé of Ste-Marguerite, who was in a cell opposite to hers; at all events, she refused to make her confession to the Abbé Girard, a "constitutional" priest, who offered her his services.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09665a.htm (778 words)

	Fascinating History: June 2005
		In the meantime, the French King Phillip, spread rumours that the Templars were plotting to overthrow the Pope.
		As for sleeping arrangements, it was not unusual for people to be sharing their bed with more than one person, all for the purposes of convenience and not for pleasure...Beds it seems, were a highly sought after item of furniture.
		When she was 25 her husband died and left her with three children and her widowed mother to look after.
	fascinatinghistory.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_fascinatinghistory_archive.html (7322 words)

	The Affair of the Necklace
		At the center of the furor is Jeanne de la Motte-Valois, who wove a web that included her husband Nicolas de la Motte, her accomplice Retaux, France’s wealthy and powerful Cardinal Rohan and his soothsayer Cagliostro, and the Queen of all France, Marie Antoinette.
		Orphaned as a child but clinging to the notion that she was linked to nobility, Jeanne de la Motte-Valois devoted her life to one cause: to reclaim her rightful noble title and lands.
		Cardinal De Rohan was, at the time of "L'Affaire," the highest-ranking religious authority in France, a position that gave him tremendous power.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/affair_of_the_necklace/about.php (2663 words)

	Paris With Six Kids? On A Budget? Were We Mad?: US$1 equals 0.75 euro ~ by Magdalen McInnes
		Genevieve de Bois in the Essonne area of the Ile de France (Paris zone 5), eight miles from the city outskirts.
		(These include those of the infamous jewel thief Comtesse de la Motte.) However, there are also plenty of gruesome murder weapons as well as the gory Epée de Justice—a 17th-century sword blunted by the quantity of all the noble heads it beheaded.
		Musée de la Préfecture de Police, 4 Rue de la Montagne, (Sainte Genevieve 5th arrondissement).
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