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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Release : 1893
Genre : France
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas. This book was released on 1893. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antal Szerb
Release : 2013-06-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 788/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Antal Szerb
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Antal Szerb. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Frances Mossiker
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 141/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Frances Mossiker
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Frances Mossiker. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Italo Calvino
Release : 2011-02-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 134/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Italo Calvino. This book was released on 2011-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Alexandre Dumas
Release : 2020-10-08
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas. This book was released on 2020-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
