Lamotte, Countess de, born at Fontelle, in Aube, who came up to Paris a shifty adventuress and played a chief part in the notorious affair of the Diamond Necklace (q.v.), which involved so many high people in France in deep disgrace (1756-1791). See Carlyle's “Miscellanies.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
La Mettrie * Lanark