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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.
Cornelius van Berle, a young doctor from Dortrecht, is obsessed with creating a black tulip for the prize of the city of Harlem.
The novel is part of a series of Dumas' historical-biographical novels in which the author, based on real events, creates an exciting and accessible portrayal of great figures in world history.
In his novels Eugenie Grandet (1833) and The Museum of Antiquities (1837), Balzac explores universal themes of greed, human passions, sacrifice, and moral dilemmas, placing them in different social contexts of 19th-century French society.
"Eugénie Grandet" (1833), part of Balzac's Human Comedy, is a realistic novel that explores greed, family relationships, and the sacrifices of love in provincial French society.