Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Queen's Necklace
Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Queen's Necklace, Or the Mysteries of the Court of Louis XVI
Author: Alexandre Dumas (pere)
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Queen's Necklace, Or the Secret History of the Court of Louis XVI
Author: Thomas Williams
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342763801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342763801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Queen's Necklace
Author: Antal Szerb
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782274472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782274472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
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.
The Queen's Necklace
Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Works of Alexandre Dumas: The queen's necklace. Taking the Bastille
Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Lives of Helen Jewett, and Richard P. Robinson
Author: George Wilkes
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Acquittals
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Little Dorrit. People's Amer. ed
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Languages : en
Pages : 976
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The Heiresses of Fotheringay
Author: Augustin
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Widdifield's New Cook Book
Author: Hannah Widdifield
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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