ABSTRACT
THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE I T was seven in the morning of Tuesday, the 23rd August, 1785, when the commissioner of the Chitelet, Marie Joseph Chenon and Inspector Brugnieres-the same as had previously been spying on Cagliostro at Strasbourg-appeared together at the
hotel in the rue Saint Claude. When they entered the bedroom on the first floor, accompanied by a couple of clerks and a few policemen, Cagliostro received them quite calmly. He told them with a detached air that he had been awaiting them for the last eight days, that is to say, ever since the Cardinal had been arrested.
