[17] Those of the sham Duc de Normandie and the sham Baron de Saint-Clair.
[18] The first steward and the second lawyer of the Duke of Orleans.
[19] Alas! probability is not always proved true!
[20] Conjuration de L.-P.-J.; Vie politique du même; Vie du Duc de Chartres, and many other works.
[21] Every one knows of the sad fate of the unfortunate Prince de Lamballe.
[22] See Explication de l’énigme, and other works.
[23] See Conjurations de L.-P.-J.; La Gazette de France, and other works.
[24] “It is reported,” says the Gazette de Leyde (article on Paris, July 23, 1773), “that M. le Duc de Chartres, under the name of the Comte de Joinville, is about to make a three weeks’ visit to Holland.”
The Journal historique et politique des événements des différentes cours de l’Europe (Article, France, Aug. 6, 1773), thus announces the carrying out of this plan: “Monsigneur the Duc de Chartres, having taken leave of the King and Royal Family, travelled to Metz, and from there to Thionville, from which place it is believed that Prince will go to Luxembourg and to the Austrian Netherlands, where he will travel under the name of the Comte de Joinville.” We should like to know what the learned Laurentie could now plead in contradiction!
[25] See later, The Time and the Place.