The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb, Len Rix

The Queen's Necklace

Antal Szerb, Len Rix

308 pages first pub 1943 (editions)

nonfiction historical emotional informative sad slow-paced
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This book revisits the story of Marie Antoinette’s necklace in order to present a portrait of the age. In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything - an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated...

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