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Why do you rise from your chair after being told to sit still, if you do not want to be chained?" At the touch of the officer, Lamotte had, as it appeared, regained her whole composure, and had conquered her alarm.
"You told Monsieur de, Lamotte that she was exerting herself to procure her son's admission either as a king's page or into the riding school. Now, no one at Versailles has seen this lady, or even heard of her." "I only repeated what she told me." "Where was she staying?" "I do not know." "What! she wrote to you, you went to see her, and yet you do not know where she was lodging?" "That is so."
The procureur-general's conclusions, and those of a part of the heads of the magistracy, were as severe towards the Cardinal as the information had been; yet he was fully acquitted by a majority of three voices; the woman De Lamotte was condemned to be whipped, branded, and imprisoned; and her husband, for contumacy, was condemned to the galleys for life.
She herself had been protected by a certain kind hearted Countess de Boulainvilliers; was receiving a small pension from the Court of about $325 a year; had married a certain tall soldier named Lamotte; had come to Paris, and was living in poverty in a garret, hovering about as it were for a chance to better her circumstances.
This commission was executed before M. de Crosne, lieutenant of police, had received an order from the Baron de Breteuil to put seals upon the Cardinal's papers. The destruction of all his Eminence's correspondence, and particularly that with Madame de Lamotte, threw an impenetrable cloud over the whole affair. From that moment all proofs of this intrigue disappeared.
A large arched doorway gave admittance to a passage, lighted at the other end by a small court, on the far side of which was the shop into which Madame de Lamotte had been taken on the occasion of the accident. The house staircase was to the right of the passage; and the Derues' dwelling on the entresol.
I have not the letter with me, but I recollect the sense of it perfectly, if not the wording, and I can produce it if necessary. Madame de Lamotte was at Lyons with her son and this person whose name I do not know, and whom I do not care to mention before her husband.
It is also decreed that the mortuary act of the aforesaid de Lamotte the younger, dated the sixteenth day of February last, in the register of deaths belonging to the parish church of Saint-Louis at Versailles, be amended, and his correct names be substituted, in order that the said Sieur de Lamotte, the father, and other persons interested, may produce said names before the magistrates if required.
"Through the private correspondence which was carried on between this country and England, after I had left it, I was informed that M. de Calonne, whom the Queen never liked, and who was called to the administration against her will which he knew, and consequently became one of her secret enemies in the affair of the necklace was discovered to have been actively employed against Her Majesty in the work published in London by Lamotte.
I will explain it later." "Where have you been? Whence do you return?" "I have been to Lyons, and have returned thence." "What took you there? "I will tell you later." "In the month of December last, Madame de Lamotte and her son came to Paris? "That is so." "They both lodged in your house?" "I have no reason to deny it."
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