[Rarebooks] fs: Diamond Necklace Affair -18th Century Publications
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[Diamond Necklace Affair] A Bound Collection of Pamphlets Issued by
Individuals Involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace.
Paris; 1786-1792.
An attractive period assemblage of a group of the printed pamphlets, 5 (of
6) issued by some of the figures in the Diamond Necklace Affair, comprising-
Memoire pour Le Comte de Cagliostro, Accuse; Contre M. L
Procureur-General, Accusateur; en prefence de M. le Cardinal de Rohan, de
la Comtesse de la Motte, & autres Co-Accuses. Paris: 1786. In which the
Count Cagliostro defends himself.
Reponse pour le Comtesse de Valois-la-Motte, au Memoire du Comte de
Cagliostro. Paris: 1786. In which the Countess wages a counter-attack
against Cagliostro by pointing out what a fraud he is.
Memoire a Consulter, Pour Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette dEtienville,
Bourgeois de Saint-Omer en Artois, detenu es prisons du Chatelet de Paris,
Accuse; Contre le Sieur Vaucher, Marchand Horloger, & le Sieur Loque,
Marchand Bijoutier a Paris, Plaignans. Paris: (1786).
Supplement et Suite Aux Memoires du Sieur de Bette dEtienville, Ancien
Chirurgien Sous-Aide-Major, Pour servir de Reponse aux differens Memoires
faits contre lui. Paris: 1786. Jean Charles Vincent de Bette d'Étienville
became involved when he persuaded the Baron de Fages-Chaulnes to marry one
of Cardinal Rohans mistresses, as a result of which the Baron ran up a
steep debt with Vaucher & Loque, a pair of jewelers. As the Baron was
involved in an intrigue with the Cardinal, and had also been used as a
fence for the diamonds, and the prevailing mood was arrest everyone,
dEtienville found himself a defendant... This eventually also involved the
innocent Comte de Precourt (see below).
Reponse de M. le Comte de Precourt, Colonel dInfanterie, Chevalier de
lOrdre Royal & Militaire de Saint Louis; aux Memoires des Sieurs
dEtienville, Vaucher & Loque. Paris: 1786. 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. Again, the arrest everyone first and sort them out later
ethic prevailed, and le Comte became a defendant.
Memoire de M. de Calonne, Ministre dEtat, Contre le decret rendu le 14
fevrier 1791 par lassemblee se disant nationale. Charles Alexandre de
Calonne was a friend of the de Polignacs, intimates of Marie Antoinette,
and succeeded the popular Jacques Necker as Finance Minister. Necker had
favored borrowing over taxes and brought the country to the edge of
bankruptcy, but Colonnes plan to correct this by taxing the nobility
caused his sacking. Necker was brought back one last time and his second
firing was the spark that led to the storming of the Bastille. Colonne and
Necker engaged in a furious pamphlet war for several years. Here Colonne
defends the du Polignacs against a judgment of 800,000 livres related to
the debt.
Hardcover. 8.5x10.5, 51 + 48 + 30 + 69 + 42 + 36 pages; decorative
headpieces; bound in old period flame-grained boards with a new leather
spine; covers rubbed and worn; contents with some soil, browning, and a few
scattered spots. [07837] $1,200.00
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