TY - BOOK AU - Dumas,Alexandre AU - Maquet,Auguste TI - Le Collier de la Reine, Tome I AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Biographical fiction KW - Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Fiction KW - Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di, 1743-1795 -- Fiction KW - Queens -- France -- Fiction KW - France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Necklace Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Collier_de_la_reine; Release date is 2006-04-18; Produced by Chuck Greif and www.ebooksgratuits.com; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Le Collier de la Reine, Tome I" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel published between 1849 and 1850. Loosely inspired by the real Diamond Necklace Affair that scandalized Louis XVI's court in the 1780s, the story follows impoverished countess Jeanne de La Motte as she navigates the treacherous world of Versailles. When Queen Marie-Antoinette refuses an extravagant diamond necklace, a web of deception involving a manipulative cardinal, a mysterious queen lookalike, and dangerous conspirators begins to unfold with potentially devastating consequences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18199 ER -