Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days by Will Bashor

Author:Will Bashor [Bashor, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2016-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Fifth Witness with Damaging Testimony

The second witness called earlier in the day, Roussillon, had stated that considerable sums were remitted to the emperor. This information, he said, was obtained from a good citizeness who was immediately summoned to the Tribunal. She was a domestic named Reine Millot, who told Roussillon that Marie Antoinette had sent the incredible sum of 200 million francs to her brother, Emperor Joseph of Austria, to fight the Turks and then come to her aid in France.26

The courtroom broke out in laughter. That the domestic had heard this news from the duke de Coigny was preposterous. The duke de Coigny was one of the nobles who had emigrated with the royal princes when the French Revolution broke out, and he had also joined the émigré army against the French republic.

Reine Millot also testified that the queen had formed a plot to assassinate the duke of Orléans, and the king, being acquainted with it, had ordered her searched immediately. “When two pistols were found on her person,” Millot said, “the king had her confined to her own room for a fortnight.”

Queen: It is possible I might have received an order from my husband to remain a fortnight in my apartment, but this was not the case.

Millot: I know further that in the first days of October 1789, some ladies of the court distributed white cockades to diverse persons at Versailles.

Queen: I remember having heard that, one or two days after the feast of the bodyguards, some women distributed these cockades, but neither I nor my husband was the author of similar disorders.

Herman (to the queen): What steps did you pursue to punish these women after you were acquainted with this circumstance?

Queen: None at all.

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