Joseph raised his hand and said:
"'You' refers to whom?"
The Marquis de Saint-Veran hesitated for a moment, but the fear of being exiled to Seychelles immediately overwhelmed everything:
"Yes, uh... the Marquis of Lucenay, General Astou, General Morneau..."
Joseph turned his head to signal his clerk to take note.
Actually he knew that it was basically the same twenty-something people who had signed their names to force the Royal Family's hand, but he still needed the traitors to say it themselves.
Subsequently, the Marquis de Saint-Veran elaborated on the military nobility's plan to blackmail the Royal Family, of course, with his wording altered to "hoping that the Royal Family would pay more attention to the military."