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The Queen's Necklace

This book revisits the story of Marie Antoinette’s necklace in order to present a portrait of the age. In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything — an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centerpiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in the Revolution just four years later.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 308
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781906548087
  • Settings
  • Vienna, Versailles, Paris
  • Genres
  • france, hungary, historical, fiction, classics
  • Release date
  • 2010