Jeanne de la Motte
Jeanne Valois de la Motte came from the Valois family line, though her circumstances were far from aristocratic. Daughter of Nicole Lamorlière and adoptive sister to Rosalie, she grew up in modest means on the outskirts of Paris.
What defined Jeanne most was her ambition—she was driven and hardworking, constantly scheming to improve her station. That hunger for status and wealth ultimately led her down a darker path. She's best remembered as the central figure in the Necklace Affair, one of the most notorious scandals of pre-revolutionary France. Her con involved fraudulently acquiring an extravagant diamond necklace intended for Marie Antoinette, a scheme that not only ruined her but shook public confidence in the royal court itself.
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