Jean-Baptiste Cléry

First serving as secretary of the Princess of Guéménée, he was made valet of the dauphin (who would become Louis XVII).

In his Last Will and Testament, Louis had bequeathed to Cléry "my clothes, my books, my watch, my purse, and all other small effects which have been deposited with the council of the commune.

"[1] Cléry became valet to the Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII) and gave him his journal detailing the events of the revolution.

The journal was published and was well received, and later led to Cléry's being knighted by Louis XVIII.

The popularity and pro-royalist sentiments generated by the memoirs led the French government to release a distorted copy of the book.