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Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Antal Szerb
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. At its heart was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled—and the web of fraud, folly and self-delusion it had inspired. In Szerb's last major work, a witty and often surprising account of events, the story is used as a standpoint from which to survey the entire age. Written in war-torn Hungary in the early 1940s, it constitutes a remarkable gesture of defiance against the brutal world in which the writer lived and died.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Frances Mossiker
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Frances Mossiker and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years before the French Revolution some priceless diamonds - they cost 1.8m francs, 'the price of a battleship' - were purchased in elaborate secrecy from the court jeweller of France, presumably for Marie Antoinette and at her own instructions. The necklace - not yet paid for - was delivered into the hands of Cardinal Prince de Rohan, first prelate of the Church of France. He in turn gave it to the Countess de La Motte-Valois, who claimed to be acting for the Queen. Although essentially an innocent bystander amidst this chicanery, Marie Antoinette became embroiled in a scandal which fatally weakened the monarchy.
Book Synopsis Norby and the Queen's Necklace by : Janet Asimov
Download or read book Norby and the Queen's Necklace written by Janet Asimov and published by Walker & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Jeff Wells and his robot friend Norby are suddenly transported back to 1785 in France, where they become involved with a priceless necklace, royal politics, and the accidental creation of alternate futures for Earth.
Book Synopsis How to Ruin a Queen by : Jonathan Beckman
Download or read book How to Ruin a Queen written by Jonathan Beckman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tale of greed, lust, deceit, theft, kidnapping, and assassination in the final years of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s court
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Antal Szerb
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 age—including aspects of it seldom considered by more orthodox historians. The author’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.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The queens necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The queens necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Romances: The queen's necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book Romances: The queen's necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Romances of Alexandre Dumas: The Queen's necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Romances of Alexandre Dumas: The Queen's necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Romances of Alexandre Dumas: The Queens necklace : a romance of the reign of Louis XVl by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Romances of Alexandre Dumas: The Queens necklace : a romance of the reign of Louis XVl written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace, Or the Mysteries of the Court of Louis XVI by : Alexandre Dumas (pere)
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace, Or the Mysteries of the Court of Louis XVI written by Alexandre Dumas (pere) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by : Lil Miss Hot Mess
Download or read book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish written by Lil Miss Hot Mess and published by Running Press Kids. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing off "The Wheels on the Bus," this nursery rhyme book from a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, freewheeling celebration of being your most fabulous self. The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to "work it". The story plays off "The Wheels on the Bus" as it follows a drag queen who performs her routine in front of an awestruck audience. A fun frenzy of fierceness, this book will appeal to readers of all ages.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Italo Calvino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.' In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso discover a treasure lost by the side of the road, and become suspected of a using a blameless chicken for devious ends. Italo Calvino's writing explores the fringes of these small, unusual scenes and finds incalculable wisdom and humour there. This book contains The Queen's Necklace and The Workshop Hen.
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by Alexandre Dumas and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1924 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Queen's Necklace by : Alexandre Dumas
Download or read book The Queen's Necklace written by Alexandre Dumas and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. This story is based on the on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines in the French Royal Court.
