Note 18 — IV. 1773–1778. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE: ORDERED, BUT NOT SOLD.
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In the livre rouge of Louis XVI., under the date December, 1776, there is an entry, in the king’s own hand, “Given to the queen 25,000 livres, the first payment of a sum of 300,000 livres which I have engaged to pay with interest to Böhmer in six years.”—See Archives of the Republic.