Queen's Necklace

The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850. It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s. However, the necklace behind these fictional tales is in fact real. Historian Evelyne Lever, who wrote a book on the subject, described it as an "e;...