New Orleans Vampires by Marita Woywod Crandle

Author:Marita Woywod Crandle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

It is very difficult to discern truth from fiction with the Comte’s own foolery, coupled with that of writings that came much later.

The Comte de Saint Germain is said to have been an aristocrat with no profession. However, he certainly must have profited from his association with King Louis XV of France, as well as his diplomatic involvement with other political leaders. In fact, it was his ability to produce funds in abundance, whenever necessary, that had him under suspicion of being a spy.

Monsieur Chiquet, French chargé d’affaires in London, said of St. Germain:

I find, also a person who has been here for some time, known here as the Comte de Saint-Germain. He has met every highly placed person, including the Prince of Wales. He speaks several languages, French, English, German, Italian, etc., is a very good musician and plays several instruments, said to be a Sicilian and of great wealth. What has drawn suspicion on him is that he has cut a very fine figure here, receiving great sums and settling all bills with such promptitude that it has never been necessary to remind him. Nobody could imagine how a man who was simply a gentleman could dispose of such vast resources, unless he were employed as a spy. He has been left in his own apartment under the guard of a State Messenger; no papers have been found in it or on his person which furnish the least evidence against him, he has been interrogated by the Secretary of State, to whom he does not furnish an explanation of himself quite so satisfactory as that gentleman wishes, persisting in his refusal to state his real name, title or occupation, unless to the King himself, for, he says, his behavior has been in no wise contrary to the laws of this county, and it is against common right to deprive an honest foreigner of his liberty without formulating an accusation.

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