exiled. Nicole d'Oliva was acquitted. Count Cagliostro, though acquitted, was exiled from France by order of the King. Jeanne de la Motte was found guilty and sentenced to be whipped, branded and imprisoned. The public sympathized with her. She was condemned to prison for life in the Salpêtrière, but soon escaped disguised as a boy and made her way to London where, in 1789, she published her memoirs entitled , which attempted to justify her actions while casting blame upon Marie Antoinette. The Cardinal survived the revolution and lived out his life in exile. Rétaux de Villette also lived and died in exile in Italy. Nicole d'Oliva faded into obscurity and died at age 28. Count Cagliostro was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition and died in prison. Nicolas de la Motte returned to Paris after the Revolution. Jeanne died in London as a result of injuries sustained after falling from her hotel room window, while hiding from debt collectors. A contemporary report in The Times stated that she was found "terribly mangled, her left eye cut out – one of her arms and both her legs are broken." She died on 23 August 1791, two years before Marie Antoinette, who went to the guillotine in 1793. Jeanne is buried in St. Mary's Churchyard in Lambeth, London. See also The Rose of Versailles, a manga by Riyoko Ikeda that had Jeanne as a major antagonist. Affair of the Diamond Necklace References Bibliography External links Jeanne de la Motte Valois'ancestry Full text of Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse De Valois … Justificatory Memories of the Countess of Valois de la Motte La Motte, Comtesse de La Motte, Comtesse de Jeanne French memoirists French women memoirists 18th-century French criminals 18th-century French writers 18th-century French women writers Accidental deaths from falls 18th-century French nobility French fraudsters French female criminals Prisoners of the Bastille Accidental deaths in England 18th-century memoirists