The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . room ? That night he was taken to the Bastile. The storj o| 1114:-1189] 267 tli(3 diamond necklace was this : It was worth three quar-ters of a million dollars of our money. Tlie Countess of Va-lois coveted it, and begged the cardinal to buy it for did not care to spend so much money, but he boughtit, telling the jeweller it was for the queen. Whether Ma-dame de Valois deceived him, and persuaded him that shehad an order to buy it for the queen, or whether he con-spired with
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . room ? That night he was taken to the Bastile. The storj o| 1114:-1189] 267 tli(3 diamond necklace was this : It was worth three quar-ters of a million dollars of our money. Tlie Countess of Va-lois coveted it, and begged the cardinal to buy it for did not care to spend so much money, but he boughtit, telling the jeweller it was for the queen. Whether Ma-dame de Valois deceived him, and persuaded him that shehad an order to buy it for the queen, or whether he con-spired with her to use the queens credit to cheat the jew-eller, was never rightly known. The cardinal was triedbefore the Parliament of Paris and was acquitted; Ma-dame de Valois was convicted, and was sentenced to bewhipped, branded, and imprisoned. Meanwhile the neck-lace disappeared—the stones were probably sold queen never forgave the cardinal ; and, on the otherhand, the people never forgave the queen for buying, asthey supposed, seven-hundred-thousand-dollar necklaceswhen the poor were MIRABEAU Chapter XLI IVSQ-IYQI In the early months of 1789 the French people electedmembers of the States-General. The elections passed offquietly; but at Paris the shop of a man named Revillonwas robbed, because he was said to have declared thatfifteen cents a day was pay enough for a working-man;and at Aix, in Provence, a hot-headed noble ordered thetroops to fire at the people, because they insisted on votingfor Mirabeau. The nobles had refused to choose Mirabeau,though he was a marquis ; so he hired a store, set up asign, Mirabeau, Dry-goods Dealer, and was chosen asa deputy of the third estate. It had been settled that theStates-General should consist of twelve hundred members,three hundred to represent the nobles, three hundred torepresent the clergy, and six hundred to represent thethird estate, or, in plain words, the people. On the 2d of May the king
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