One copy is available
Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.
The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850. It is loosely based on The Diamond Necklace Affair, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.
The novel, whose original title is L'Homme de plâtre, explores complex human destinies through the story of a protagonist whose life symbolically reflects fragility and vulnerability, like plaster.
This book focuses on one of the bloodiest events in French history – St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572, when thousands of French Protestants were massacred in Paris and across the country.
The novel represents one of Dumas' lesser-known, but still very interesting historical-biographical novels.