TY - BOOK AU - Dumas,Alexandre AU - Maquet,Auguste TI - The queen's necklace 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; Release date is 2006-12-16; Juergen Lohnert, Wilelmina Maillière, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The queen's necklace" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a novel published in 1849 and 1850. Loosely based on the infamous Affair of the Diamond Necklace that scandalized Louis XVI's court, the story unfolds between 1784 and 1785. The mysterious Count Cagliostro pulls the strings behind a web of fraud and royal intrigue. As the novel opens with prophetic warnings of doom, readers know that even the queen's desperate attempts to prove her innocence may be destined to fail. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20122 ER -