Count Cagliostro: The Egyptian Rite, a Queen’s Necklace and a Fortress Prison

A Paris crowd cheered him out of the Bastille. Five years later his books were burned in a Roman square and he was locked in a fortress. Was Cagliostro an Egyptian sage, a swindler, or a scapegoat?

In the spring of 1786, a man of 42 walked out of the Bastille, and a huge crowd walked him home.