Status Updates From Das Halsband Der Königin

roué: literally, 'a man who has been executed by being broken on the wheel' (who has been 'wheeled') and by extension, a man deserving of such punishment :-p

I assumed this was fiction, but apparently it isn't!
I don't actually know, or don't remember, what the famous "affair of the Queen's necklace" was, so shall be able to read this without foreknowledge of how it turns out...