num_pages: 308
description: This book revisits the story of Marie Antoinettes 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.
language: English
title: The Queen's Necklace
publisher: Pushkin Press