A locksmith by the name of François Gamain helped reveal these documents to the authorities, who rewarded him with a government pension. The cabinet hid correspondence between Louis XVI and, among others,
Mirabeau, whose venality and duplicity were exposed. Also, the cabinet included the correspondence of the King with the financier
Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, an important secret advisor of the sovereign; with the bankers Joseph Duruey, and Tourteau de Septeuil; with
Arnaud Laporte, a Royalist government minister who controlled large funds of money during the revolution; with
François de Bonal,
Bishop of Clermont, et al. Most of the pieces of correspondence in the cabinet involved ministers of Louis XVI, including
Armand Marc, comte de Montmorin,
Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart,
Bertrand de Molleville,
Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara,
Cahier de Gerville, and
Charles François Dumouriez. Other letters involved prominent figures of the Revolution, such as General
Antoine Joseph Santerre,
Lafayette,
Antoine Rivarol, and
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. There were rumors that only selected documents were made public, and that certain other documents were destroyed. The Interior Minister Roland would have played a role in this regard, and may have destroyed documents involving his colleague
Danton. ==Aftermath==