by Jean-Jacques COURTEY, Doctor in Economic Geography, Ph. D
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This new article of "Uchronic history" is dedicated to the Princess of Lamballe, and to the "Deus ex machina" who seems having substituted to human justice for her. Indeed, the punishments of the murderers and enemies of the unhappy Princess have been various and unexpected, but always striking : in some respects, they can appear enigmatic !
The Princess of Lamballe is remaining in some circles as an ignored historian. As a matter of fact, she made deep researches about the enigma of the Man in the Iron Mask. She even wrote the results of her personal inquiries. Her conclusion was he was actually...Molière (1622 - 1673 ?), who died neither on stage, nor at home. According to her, he was kidnapped by the Company of Holy Sacrament, his enemy from a long date, after his famous discomfort on stage, and kept in the secret of La Bastille finally till his real death on November 19th, 1703 !
The tragic destiny of this devoted Princess to Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755 - 1793 or 1834 ?), who had a good soul, deserves our Christian compassion. We will not hide the extreme complexity of everything that surrounds this terrible day of September 3rd, 1792. It is historically integrated in the Massacres of early September 1792...which can easily mislead the researcher !
It's a very sad story, but there were clearly concealed reasons about what happened to her, on that fateful day. If you consider the macabre staging made to create deliberately Terror, you understand quickly the Princess of Lamballe was the main target of the Massacres of September 1792. And if you wonder who exactly wanted to benefit from her terrible death, some clear answers begin to appear. That's why we are going to expose what we have finally discovered, through the enigmatic punishments of her murderers and enemies which relentlessy ensued. Of course, you can make a pause after each part to catch your breath !
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This new article of "Uchronic history" is the result of a very long inquiry about the martyrdom of the Princess of Lamballe (September 8th, 1749 - September 3rd, 1792), and its suprising aftermaths. We have consulted a lot of articles and various books of reference, sometimes with restricted access, to understand better what happened precisely. As a matter of fact, a lot of things are extremely unclear and contradictory, even for specialists. To reach the truth, you need to cross-reference constantly and with the patience of an angel. Too many things are mixed up : her role of Superintendent of the Queen's House (she was abroad when the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" from Olympe de Gouges was transmitted to Queen Marie-Antoinette in october 1791), that of Great Mistress of the French Female Freemasonry, her links with the Illuminated Brothers of Asia, or those with the Illuminati of Bavaria notably. And we mustn't forget to mention her ultimate and pivotal role as potential savior of French Monarchy in favour of Louis XVII (1785 - 1795 ? - 1860) in June 1792. Indeed, she led a discrete diplomacy in the Pavillion of Flore (Tuileries) : with this ultimate solution of compromise found with Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756 - 1794), Mayor of Paris, Georges Jacques Danton (1759 - 1794), and Maximilien de Robespierre (1758 - 1794), Louis XVI (1754 - 1793 ?) would have abdicated in favour of his son Louis XVII, the Princess of Lamballe being proclaimed Regent during his minority. She could have saved the whole Royal family and put an end to the nightmare. But this could have definitively ruined the royal pretentions of her brother-in-law, Philip, Duke of Orleans (1747 - 1793), Grand Master of the Great Orient of France. But it failed because of the too strong opposition of Royalist courtiers in the Tuileries Palace. And on August 10th, 1792, the Tuileries were assaulted, which provoked as a consequence the end of French Monarchy !
The Princess of Lamballe is known in history to have been the best friend of Queen Marie-Antoinette, even their friendship had to know some eclipses. Marie-Thérèse of Savoie-Carignan was born in Turin (Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia). Like Marie-Antoinette, she was a foreigner in France, when she married the Prince of Bourbon-Lamballe, and became French (1767). But the year after, she became a widower. She was beloved by her father-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725 - 1793). Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Habsburg-Lorraine arrived in Versailles after her marriage with the Duke of Berry (future Louis XVI) in 1770, about her : she was only 14 ! And both of them sensed completely lost in their new country of adoption. They didn't feel so well received and accepted in Versailles, and they lost many of their chilldhood dreams. Their somewhat childish spontaneity didn't please much. Many people were narrow-minded and without indulgence, especially the ones pretending to be free thinkers. And they had immediately a strong feeling of loneliness in the Court of Versailles, with its too heavy and burdensome etiquette. People were excessively demanding, but never for themselves who were far to be good models. And this inconsistency bothered them a lot. Paradoxically, it's the old King Louis XV (1710 - 1774), a bit like a nice "Grand Dad", that they found quite open-minded and very kind with them, and all the time quick to forgive their childish flaws : he was always happy and amazed in their presence. Then, it's this same feeling of inner solitude that immediately brought Marie-Antoinette and Marie-Thérèse together. These two very young women, both beautiful, have also been accused to be more than simple friends, even by the Count Axel of Fersen (1755 - 1810), who showed his rival friendship to the Queen from 1774. This absurd invention of a "lesbian plot" on the French Monarchy was notably propagated by Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence (1755 - 1824), far before the Revolutionaries, and a long time before he had become Louis XVIII (1814 - 1815 ~ 1815 - 1824) !
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803), the hidden antagonist of the Princess of Lamballe, the Queen and the King notably, was a rigid military man : then ostensibly, he seemed very far from the character of Valmont in "Dangerous liaisons" ("Les liaisons dangereuses" in French), his famous epistolary novel published in 1782. He was totally devoted to the interests of the Duke of Orleans, who had proposed to become the Regent of France as soon as July, 15th, 1789. He apparently didn't suffer personally from his implication as instigator of the massacre of the Princess of Lamballe, for having recruited the main villains, Petit-Mamin, Charlat, Grison... Choderlos de Laclos was the secretary of Philip Equality ; and he had already organized for him the so-called "March of women" - with many dangerous men disguised in women among them - on Versailles on October 5 and 6, 1789. After the awful massacre of the Princess of Lamballe, her head was finally brandished under the windows of Philip Equality at the Palais Royal, in a first version. But in a second version, her head was even delivered in his dining room, where he was with his Mistress, Madame de Buffon nicknamed "Agnès" (Marguerite Françoise Bouvier de La Motte de Cepoy - 1768 - 1808), the female companion of his intrigues. Was he the main sponsor, or did his secretary want to force his hand because he was finding him too soft, just like his Mistress ? Anyhow, on November 6th, 1793, Philip Equality was himself guillotined in Paris. Choderlos de Laclos about him was never judged for this massacre. He died from natural death - seemingly - on September 5th, 1803 (eleven years, almost day for day after the Princess of Lamballe)...from dysentery and malaria in Tarente (Apulia region, Italy), as one of the generals of the Army of Italy. He spent so much time getting worked up on the correct pronunciation of his name with his interlocutors, "Chauderlot de Laclos" and not "Koderloss de Laclos", that he may have inadvertently - or not - drunk stale water. Surprisingly, nowadays a part of the specialists of "Dangerous liaisons" with the infamous Valmont, are still pronouncing his name "Koderloss de Laclos" !
Petit-Mamin was from the Section of "the Tuileries" : it seems this rentier - not a poor man then - was mainly in charge to indicate to the slaughterers which prisoner of the jail of La Force in Paris was the Princess of Lamballe. He was also accused to have participated to her horrible assassination. He was furthermore, the only one prosecuted for this in 1796, but he was acquitted. Finally, he was deported in 1801 to Anjouan (Comoros) following an edict of Joseph Fouché (1759 - 1820) - himself a previous Jacobin ironically - proscribing former listed Jacobins. And he died over there of hunger and misery. Charlat, a whigmaker, was a drummer in the National Guard (section of the Arcis). He could escape any prosecution for what he did on September 3rd, 1792, by engaging himself in the Army. He really thought he would be safe. He didn't seem to have had any remorse of what he had done to the Princess of Lamballe during the massacre : it was he who had stricken her head with a club, and had opened her chest by ripping off her heart. He had too sported her genitals as a moustache and snickered like a filthy monster. He was sent to Vendée as a volunteer. But it seems he was too much boasting of having participated to the massacre of the Princess of Lamballe, with macabre details, near his companions of arms. This hastened his end : he was on his turn massacred by his own comrades in arms, particularly disgusted and very angry (1795). Grison was an apprentice butcher : it's him who had sawn the neck of the Princess of Lamballe during her awful massacre. Him, he was judged in the department of Aube for other crimes in January 1797, so three years and half after the fateful fall of Robespierre (Thermidor 9th, Year II - July 27th 1794). He was sentenced to have his head cut off. But it seems the guillotine wasn't working properly the day of his execution : apparently, it took at least two attempts to cut off his head. Or may be was he executed twice for all what he had done, by the "Deus ex machina" ?
The case of Brune, who had become after a marshal of Napoleon I (1769 - 1821), is more particular. He was a friend of Camille Desmoulins (1760 - 1794) and a harsh revolutionary, ready to defend his ideals with weapons. And there was a rumour that someone had seen him disguised, holding the head of the Princess of Lamballe during the massacre. So for the Royalists, he was obviously guilty. On their side, the Italian Carbonari who had fought against Napoleon in Italy, and were supporting the family of Savoie (her family then) in their desire for regained independence and unity for Italy, thought exactly the same thing. What happened exactly to Guillaume Brune (1763 - 1815) remained unclear for several years, except the fact his dead body was thrown in Avignon (South East of France) into the tumultuous waters of the Rhône river on August 2nd, 1815. But in 1821 (year of Napoleon's death), in Riom under the now appeased reign of Louis XVIII, his widow made him rehabilitated from several accusations. It was recognized officially that he didn't suicide in his hotel room of Avignon, after a certain Soullier had recognized him in the street, and had accused him to have carried on the end of a pike the head of the Princess of Lamballe on the occasion of her massacre. And it was admitted he was near Thionville on that fateful day of September 3rd, 1792, and not in Paris then. Similarly, the accusation of malversations was erased. So officially, he is considered to have been assassinated or finished off by a certain Guindon a.k.a "Roquefort", only as a marshal of Napoleon I, during the anti-Bonarpartist "White Terror" of the second Restoration !
As an epilog, Saiffert, the personal Doctor of the Princess of Lamballe, who was member of the Commune of Paris, and an important member from the Illuminati of Bavaria in France, was terribly shocked by her death. He was feeling a tender love for her. In his mind, she was the great love of his life. She had been for several months her female companion in England in 1791, when he treated with success her attacks of nervous crisis. It's through him we know a double of the Count of Saint Germain signified the Princess she was going to die, after she had been fakely released by Jacques René Hébert (1757 - 1794), president of an improvised revolutionary court, from the jail of La Force in Paris !
Was there an unsaid dynastic war between the Valois and the Bourbons, artificially stimulated by the pro-Merovingian Rose-Cross, to provoke a change of dynasty in the Kingdom of France ? As a matter of fact, at the issue of the "Queen's necklace affair" (1785- 1786), Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (1756 - 1791 ?), a real descendant of King Henri II (1519 - 1559), the "King of Angolmois" dear to Nostradamus - 1503 - 1566 -, was sentenced to stay in jail and to be marked with red iron of the sign of infamy on the shoulders : unhappily, because of her hair intertwined, it was applied on her right breast instead by the clumsy executioner !
The Princess of Lamballe visited the Countess de La Motte-Valois in her jail of La Salpétrière in Paris. She had been sent by the Queen to prevent her to publish her memoirs. But the Countess refused to meet her. And the Mother Superior of La Salpétrière said to the Princess the prisoner had been sentenced to stay in jail, not to see her ! Strangely, it has to be noticed that before her arrest in Bar-sur-Aube (Aube), Jeanne de La Motte-Valois visited over there the Duke of Penthièvre, father-in-law of the Princess of Lamballe. Anyway, she didn't stay for long in jail as she could escape to England in 1787, with the help of accomplices. It is known she applauded at the bloody Revolution in France. And it's far to be certain she died in 1791 in London : some historians even think she died in France (Paris) in 1844 instead. Might the Princess of Lamballe have been a collateral victim of her hatred towards the Bourbon dynasty ?
Saint Germain (between 1691 and 1710 - 1784), the real one and not his double called Gauwe (an actor in Paris who thought he was a good comedian) was called "the immortal Rose-Cross", and he was actually dead since February 27th, 1784 (Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein, presently Germany) : he was over suddenly completely paralyzed, his drinkable gold having no effect anymore - as a brutal epilog to the progressive deterioration of his health at the end of the Wilhelmsbad Convent in the summer of 1782. This even led to an open war between the Rose-Cross of Innsbrück and Johann Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1830), the founder of the Illuminati of Bavaria. Nevertheless, the Princess was over suddenly caught by an apparently mad crowd led seemingly by Petit-Mamin. And the Doctor Jean-Geoffroy Saiffert (1747 - 1810) couldn't do anything to save her. He had been horrified, and he was terribly shocked and down about it !
That's why Saiffert didn't appreciate at all what wrote Axel of Fersen, whose engagements were unclear, about the massacre of the Princess of Lamballe, on September 19th, 1792 : "Madame Princess of Lamballe was martyred for four hours in the most horrible manner. The pen refuses to give these details ; her breast was torn off with teeth, and she was given any possible aid for two hours to bring her back from a faint in order to make her feel death better." From that date, the case of Fersen judged disturbing became a personal concern for the pro-Austrian Illuminati of Bavaria !
To this German Doctor, this comment was unwelcome and ambiguous, as he knew from the Princess of Lamballe she had been an obstacle for Fersen to become really the lover of Queen Marie-Antoinette, despite the rumours than ran about their platonic feeling. The Illuminati of Bavaria were already reproaching Fersen his bad management of the Varennes escape (on 20 and 21 June, 1791). Above that, there was a discrete rumour he was actually present in Varennes-en-Argonne, and not in Montmédy, during the fateful night of June 21st, 1791, when the Royals were arrested. And he wouldn't have done anything to rescue the Royal Family : it's as if he and his 175 dragons had evaporated. But Fersen always declared he was waiting in Montmédy (not so far then), the final stage of the escape, by not seeming to worry that they were so slow to arrive !
Because of all these embarrassing doubts on his troubling role, the pro-Austrian Illuminati of Bavaria decided to react. And in 1810, Axel of Fersen who was Swedish, was accused to have poisoned the new King of Sweden, Carl-August (1768 - 1810), from Danish-German origin, through his personal Doctor. The day of his funeral, on June 20th, 1810, Fersen was over suddenly in a big trouble in the streets of the Swedish capital. He was assaulted by the crowd who lapidated him to death, and trampled him. This happened in presence of numerous troops, which didn't intervene. It was surprisingly the anniversary day of the missed escape of Varennes !
As an aside, on September 5th, 1791, Queen Marie-Antoinette had sent secretely to her "compatriot", Count Valentin Esterhazy (1740 - 1805), from the Tuileries two rings, one "fleur-de-lysée" in red with three lilies and a second one in solid gold : on the first one, it was written on the verso "Domine salvum fac regem et reginam" (Lord, save the King and the Queen), and on the second one the back of the ring was bearing "Lâche qui les abandonne" ("Coward who abandons them"). He had to keep the first ring for him, and to transmit the second one to the Count Axel of Fersen ("dear"). There, the message was much more contrasted than the recent and approximate decoding of her letter !
