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Download or read book The Queen s Necklace written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 317 pages. 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.

Download or read book The Queen s Necklace written by Frances Mossiker and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 624 pages. 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.

Download or read book The Queen s Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Queen s Necklace written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 centrepiece 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. In this unusual, witty and often surprising version of the story, the great Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb takes the narrative as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age—including aspects of it seldom considered by more orthodox historians. The author’s vast knowledge is worn very lightly and the book teems with amusing anecdotes, but it is, at heart, a deeply personal work, a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which it was written.

Download or read book The Queen s Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. This story is based on the on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines in the French Royal Court.

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Download or read book Norby and the Invaders Norby and the Queen s Necklace written by Isaac Asimov and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of the complete children’s sci-fi series includes a mission to foil evildoing aliens and a quick trip to eighteenth-century France. Norby and the Invaders Jeff Wells and his robot, Norby, must rescue the Grand Dragon of Jamya from strange, blimplike aliens known as the Hleno. Determined to protect the environment from the overuse of technology, the Hleno take Norby and Jeff prisoner, too. Encased in an impenetrable plastic bubble, Norby is helpless. And without Norby, Jeff is lost in outer space. Norby and the Queen’s Necklace Sent to 1785, France, Jeff and Norby get mixed up with an extravagant necklace intended for Marie Antoinette—and accidentally alter events that led to the French Revolution. Now they must shuttle back and forth through time and space to set world history straight.

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