sentences:  They had managed to hire a French housekeeper named "Madame Bastian" who worked in the building to help in this effort and in September 1894 she found a torn-up note which she handed over to her employers at the Military Intelligence Service.This note later became known as "the bordereau".This piece of paper, torn into six large pieces, unsigned and undated, was addressed to the German military attaché stationed at the German Embassy, Max von Schwartzkoppen.