Note 145 — XIX. 1785. Feb.–Aug. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE VANISHES!
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The reader will have observed that specific mention is not made in the jewellers’ letter of the Necklace itself, which Marie-Antoinette, in common with everybody else, had no doubt heard had been sold to the Sultan. Besides, only some two months previously the queen had purchased of Böhmer a magnificent pair of diamond earrings at the cost, it was reported, of 800,000 livres, and why might not this letter in the queen’s mind have borne reference to these rather than to the Diamond Necklace? See “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. i. p. 562.