Countess De La Mute and the Queen's Secrets

The countess de la mut concocted a scheme to get the necklace for herself. She suggested to the cardinal de rolan, who was on the outs with marie antoinette, that he could help facilitate this purchase of the necklace for the queen. De la mute forged letters from the queen to rohan and arranged a meeting late at night in the versailles gardens with a stand in who claimed to be the queen. The cardinal agreed to the plan based on all this, and signed a contract with baumer and bassage for the purchase as a representative of marie Antoinette. But then, when he was unable to secure the funds, the jewellers went