The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb

The Queen's Necklace

Antal Szerb with Len Rix (Translator)

384 pages first pub 1943 (editions)

nonfiction historical emotional informative sad slow-paced
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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 o...

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