It was known that in his resume, the attorney-general had alluded to
the punishment of the cardinal. That was the only news which had
worked its way out of the court-room. Some favored journalist, or
some friend of the queen, had heard this; it spread like the wind
all over Paris, and in thousands upon thousands of copies the words
of the attorney-general were distributed.

His address purported to run as follows: that "Cardinal de Rohan is
indicted on the accusation, and must answer the Parliament and the
attorney-general respecting the following charges: of audaciously
mixing himself up with the affairs of the necklace, and still more
audaciously in supposing that the queen would make an appointment
with him by night; and that for this he would ask the pardon of the
king and the queen in presence of the whole court. Further, the
cardinal is enjoined to lay down his office as grand almoner within
a certain time, to remove to a certain distance from the royal
residence and not to visit the places where the royal family may be
living, and lastly, to remain in prison till the complete
termination of the trial."

The friends and dependants of the cardinal, the enemies and
persecutors of the queen, received this decision of the attorney-
general with vexation and anger; they found fault with the servility
of the man who would suffer the law to bow before the throne; they
made dishonorable remarks and calumnious innuendoes about the queen,
who, with her coquetry and the amount received from the jewels, had
gained over the judges, and who would, perhaps have appointed a
rendezvous with every one of them in order to gain him over to her
side.