 It was directed in France by the Prince of Cellamare, the Spanish ambassador, with the complicity of the Duchess of Orléans' older brother, the duc du Maine, and Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, the latter's wife.In 1718, the Cellamare conspiracy was discovered and its participants exiled.Two years later its aims were revived in the Pontcallec Conspiracy, four leaders of which were executed.