The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-03-30
The Din mond Necklace.

In connection with the French Panam,
scandal should be recalled that othe
great French scandal, which filled al
: Europe over one hundred years ago anc
contributed no little to swell the ties anc
increase the horrors of the French revolu
ton just then abrewing. Since no refer.
ence has been made Of the old scandal, it ID
determined here to supply "a long fell
want"
In 1913 the napoleon and messiah o.
all fraud, Cagiostro, had duped.all Eu
rope Except England, where he failed)
and had reached and ensnared Cardinal
de Rohan, when the Countess Lamotte-
Valois nee Valois-a descendant six gen.
erations off OF Henry ii, by his bastard
son, Henri de st. Remi--27 years of age,
poor, sort of milliner, not pretty, but
somewhat attractive, saw her way to
fortune--as she hoped, to fame without
fortune, as it turned out--and became the
duper of Duper Cagliastro, and duped de
Rohan, or, at least, snatched from Gag.
liastro the prey he had won in the cardi.
nal.
Cardinal de Rohan had been embassa.
dor at Vienna, and had received the
dauphinesse, Marie Antoinette, at Stras-
burg, but he had been recalled ct the
instance of the pious Maria Theresa, and
; had unfavorably impressed Marie An.
tonette, so that when she became queen,
, upon the death OF the absolute Louis
, XIV, he found himself in utter disgrace
! with king and queen. and unable even to
procure an interview. Perhaps partly
; moved by thirst for liason with beau
tful queen Of the proud house of Austria
but chiefly by the courtier's desire fol
place, power and court favor, he moved
all France to regain his lost position, un
/ Til gaining queenly favor became mono
mania.
} Just before the death Of Louis XIV. the
; court ieweler, BEGINNER, had planned the
making of the fine st necklace the WORLD
had ever seen. 1t was intended for the
/ kings mistress, Dubarry, aad was valued
at $500, 900. The smallpox in the person
/ OF Louis XIV killed the only fool mad
enough to spend 100000 in a diamond
necklace for mistress or queen.
! Furgot had found way to pluck tn,
goose without making it cackle--his def
nition OF the true art of taxation-bul
the goose had been plucked until it had
triumphed over the true art of taxation
and begun to cackle most vociferously
Marie Antoinette looked at BEGINNER:
necklace, but the French court, the goose
cackling. the revolution brewing, the
devil to pay and no pitch hot-needed
money more than diamond necklaces
needed as Marie Antoinette told BEGINNER
, Line of battle-ships more than diamond
, necklaces" for the war with England.
BEGINNER cried his great wares in al
the courts in Europe. At first matter
of pride, it became matter of financia
life or death. Both motives combined t.
make his desire to dispose OF the neck
lace monomania. LET me sell it you
or let me drown myself" he said t
Marie. 81 cannot buy. third course
is open to you-break it up and sell the
magnificent diamonds; and as for drown
ing you can do that at any time without
my permission" said the queen. Break
it up. pride in it would not allow sell il
he could not-the only fool of that folly
was dead and Dubsrry on half pay
drown at least he did not.
Here were two monomaniacs - on,
athirst for woman's favor, perhaps
from mixed motives, chiefly for place ant
power and courtiership; the other aaung
cred to dispose of the thing he made
with that intense interest every mar
takes in his own creation, turned Il
monomania. Both, in pursuance Of thei
: respective objects, were boring all France
until both were known as common bores
to be lodged at every corner and alley
Both were in the plastic state of dupa
bility.
Countess Lamotte, with her small pen
sion, millinery of small profit, was jus
then flying back and forth to de Rohan'I
quarter of France, seeking to regain som'
part of her dissipated ancestral estates
She had some sort of access to the roya
back kitchen and to Marie Antoinette
She got wind of the diamond necklace
perhaps had some knowledge that Marie
t wanted, but wouldn't buy. She haC
! heard OF de Rohan's monomaniacal seek
/ ing for queenly favor, knew his riches
/ and found him the dupe OF Caglisstro
a beset with Cagliostric magic, Egyptian
! masonry, theosophy, spiritism, mind
reading, naturalization of the departed
) and all that ''rot" of the utterly skeptica
r fools OF this world, who deny all gooc
: and believe all tomfoolery-or deny th'
y tomfoolery that besets and taints all gooC
: with superstition only to believe all tom
r foolery on the side OF bad.
Why shouldn't de Rohan be her dupe
And so she made him. Carlyle aptl,
n makes this milliner one who linked thi