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Author : Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055018519
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3G4J
Author : Frances Mossiker
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1842126148
Four years before the French Revolution some priceless diamonds - they cost 1.8m francs, 'the price of a battleship' - were purchased in elaborate secrecy from the court jeweller of France, presumably for Marie Antoinette and at her own instructions. The necklace - not yet paid for - was delivered into the hands of Cardinal Prince de Rohan, first prelate of the Church of France. He in turn gave it to the Countess de La Motte-Valois, who claimed to be acting for the Queen. Although essentially an innocent bystander amidst this chicanery, Marie Antoinette became embroiled in a scandal which fatally weakened the monarchy.
Author : Antal Szerb
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908968784
"A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. At its heart was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled—and the web of fraud, folly and self-delusion it had inspired. In Szerb's last major work, a witty and often surprising account of events, the story is used as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age. Written in war-torn Hungary in the early 1940s, it constitutes a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which the writer lived and died.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322436354
"The Queen's Necklace" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726647747
The French queen Marie Antoinette had gained a bad reputation – she used too much money and arranged too many parties. But the real scandal started in 1785 when she was suspected to have bought an extremely expensive diamond necklace – even though she was a victim of a complex conspiracy. ‘The Queen’s Necklace’ is Alexandre Dumas’s exciting novel about these very happenings in the 1700’s French Monarchy. It is part of ‘The Marie Antoinette Romances’. The series also includes the novels ‘Balsamo the Magician', ‘Storming the Bastille’, ‘The Countess of Charny’ and ‘The Knight of the Red House’. Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French writer. He is best known for his novels ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘The Three Musketeers'. Dumas is considered as one of the most significant French writers of the 19th century. Dumas’s background was exceptional in 1800’s France as his grandmother was a black slave – and also Dumas faced a lot of racism. Many of Dumas’s books have been filmed into movies.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427065889
Author : Janet Asimov,Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Walker & Company
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : France
ISBN : 0802766595
Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells and his robot friend Norby are suddenly transported back to 1785 in France, where they become involved with a priceless necklace, royal politics, and the accidental creation of alternate futures for Earth.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UGA:32108024793443
Author : Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005874113
Author : Александр Дюма
Publisher : Litres
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040830299
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s. The novel first appeared in serialised form in La Presse. The story takes place between 1784 and 1785. This novel presents an idealized portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette, but it also shows the decadence of the nobility of the time, with its ending seeming to suggest the "beginning of the end" of the nobility.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141971131
'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.' In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso discover a treasure lost by the side of the road, and become suspected of a using a blameless chicken for devious ends. Italo Calvino's writing explores the fringes of these small, unusual scenes and finds incalculable wisdom and humour there. This book contains The Queen's Necklace and The Workshop Hen.
Author : Jonathan Beckman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306823558
Tale of greed, lust, deceit, theft, kidnapping, and assassination in the final years of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s court
Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:38698670