The Queen's Necklace

The Queen's Necklace

In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everythingâ€”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 ageâ€”including aspects of it seldom considered by more orthodox historians. The authorâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Pushkin Press
Manufacturer Pushkin Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2009-01-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781906548612

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