Affair of the Diamond Necklace
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The Affair of the Diamond Necklace was a mysterious incident in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI of France involving his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. The reputation of the Queen, which was already tarnished by gossip, was ruined by the implication that she had participated in a crime to defraud the crown jewelers of the cost of a very expensive diamond necklace. The Affair was historically significant as one of the events that led to the French populace's disillusionment with the monarchy, which, among other causes, eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
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The affair in fiction
- Diamond Necklace, by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
- The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas, père (1848) (ISBN 1-58963-209-5)
- The Queen's Necklace, by Maurice Leblanc (1905) (An Arsène Lupin Story)
- The Rose of Versailles, by Riyoko Ikeda (manga and anime)
- The Queen's Necklace, by Antal Szerb (1943)
- Norby and the Queen's Necklace, by Janet Asimov (1986)
- The Queen of Diamonds, by Jean Plaidy (1958)
- The Affair of the Necklace (2001 film)
- The Necklace Affair, by Edgar P. Jacobs (part of the Blake and Mortimer comic series) (1967)
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