num_pages: 281
description: 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.
language: German
title: Das Halsband Der Königin
titlecomplete: Das Halsband Der Königin
genres: Fiction, Historical, Hungarian Literature, France, 18th Century, French Revolution, Classics, Historical Fiction, Hungary
ratings_count: 306
places: Versailles, Paris, Vienna
publisher: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag