At that time, the cardinal was eager to regain the queen's favor in order to realize his wish to become the king's prime minister. Jeanne Delamotte entered the court through a lover named Rétaux de Villette and convinced Ron that she was loved by the Queen. Hearing this connection, Ron intends to use the "Countess" to regain the favor of the Queen. Jenny promised that she would help for the benefit of the cardinal.
Cardinal Rouen began the so-called correspondence between Rouen and the Queen. Jenny, a female adventurer, always brings back replies to Ron in time, claiming that these replies come from the Queen. The tone of the letter became more and more gentle, and the cardinal was convinced that Queen Marie Antoinette was in love with him, and she was also passionately infatuated with her. He asked Jenna to arrange a secret date for him and the queen at midnight. 1784 In August, Jeanne finally arranged such a meeting. In the trees of Versailles Garden, the cardinal met a woman he thought was the queen. This woman is actually a prostitute named Nicole Legouail de Oliva. She was hired by Jenny because she looks a bit like the queen. Rouen gave Dolliva a rose, and she pretended that the promised queen would forget their past differences.
Jeanne Delamotte took advantage of the cardinal's trust and got a lot of money from him, telling him that the money was used to support the Queen's charity activities. Thanks to this, Jenny further entered the upper class. Because she often publicly announces her relationship with the Queen, many people believe what she said is true.
French queen Marie Antoinette jeweler B? Hmer et Bassange also needs Tina to help sell necklaces. At first, she refused the jeweler's entrustment, but later she changed her mind and accepted it. 1785 65438+1October 2 1, Joan told the cardinal that the queen wanted to buy this necklace, but she didn't want to openly buy such expensive jewelry when she was in financial difficulties. The queen wants the cardinal to be the secret middleman. Soon, Ron went to talk about buying this necklace, the amount was 200 Wan Li francs, and it was to be paid in installments. He claimed to have the queen's authorization to buy and showed the jeweler the terms of the transaction approved by the queen herself. Ron took the necklace to Jenny's house and a man took it away. Ron thinks he is the queen's servant. Jeanne Delamotte's husband smuggled the necklace to London, took it apart and sold the larger diamonds separately.
When it was time to pay, Jenny Delamotte showed the cardinal's bill, but it was not enough. Boehmer complained to the Queen, but the Queen told him that she didn't accept or order the necklace. She performed several more negotiations. What happened next suddenly became dramatic. On August 1785, 15, the day of the Virgin ascensiontide, when the whole court was waiting for the king and queen to go to the chapel, Cardinal Ron was brought before the king, queen, justice minister Breteuil and seal-keeper Miro Mesnier to explain the matter. Ron took out a letter and signed it "French Marie Antoinette". The king was furious when he read the letter. Ron was fooled like a foreign prince because the royal family never used "French" as part of his signature. Ron was arrested and put in the Bastille. He destroyed what he thought was correspondence with the Queen. In addition, Jenny was arrested three days later, and she has destroyed the relevant documents.
The police worked hard to find out their criminals, arrested prostitutes nicole Legay Doreva and Redo Devillette, and confessed that he wrote a letter to Ron in the name of the Queen, and imitated her signature in the terms of the transaction. Alessandro Cagliostro, a famous quack, was also arrested, although it is doubtful whether he was involved.
Cardinal Rouen accepted the trial of the Supreme Court of Paris. On May 3 1786 and 3 1 day, the verdict was that Cardinal Rouen, prostitute Nicole and Kallio Ostro were all innocent. Jeanne Delamotte was sentenced to flogging, branding and sent to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, a prostitute prison; However, flogging and branding were not carried out. The following June, she escaped disguised as a boy. Because of her escape, her husband was sentenced to life in a paddle boat. Devillette was exiled.