The Queen's Necklace
The Affair of the Necklace is the second part of the four -volume novel series of memoirs of a physician of the French writers Alexandre Dumas the Elder. , To which Joseph Balsamo, Ange Pitou and The Countess de Charny belong to Dumas, beginning with Joseph Balsamo, between 1846 and 1855 published in the arts pages of the Paris newspaper La Presse.
He treats in not quite authentic, the necklace affair around Marie Antoinette, Cardinal de Rohan, the Countess de la Motte and the Count Cagliostro in 1785. Dumas published this work with the original title Le Collier de la reine from 1849.
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The Cardinal de Rohan worshiped the French queen Marie Antoinette, in which he is but fallen out of favor, which makes it difficult to create. By crafty Countess de la Motte him is reported by a very valuable diamond necklace, which was offered by the jewelers Bohemian and Boss In to buy the Queen, which they did, because she knows how bad it is to the French treasury, had to decline. The La Motte, an impoverished descendant of the house of Valois, which has visited a few times the queen, persuaded the Cardinal, Marie Antoinette vorzustrecken the money for the purchase of the necklace, and promises him for the favor of the high lady this so much wishes.
No sooner said than done. The jewelry is purchased, and Rohan gets as much for its spending a nocturnal rendezvous in the Apollo pools in the gardens of Versailles. The months pass, and gradually, the jewelers, where only the first installment has been paid so far for her jewel, restless. Finally, they turn to the queen itself Insurgency is great. The queen denies having the Colliers each sale support. The Cardinal is fixed and defended its part by divulges the secret rendezvous. The Queen is outraged, the Cardinal is deeply insulted, but the jewelry is gone.
But what was now actually happen? The La Motte had forged letters from the Queen, the Cardinal in the Apollo bathrooms a double of Marie- Antoinette's presents ( Nicole, who was mentioned in the first volume of the novel series and now meets the reader as Mademoiselle Olivia ), finally get the necklace, the diamond broken out of the sockets and trying to sell through middlemen. The chief puppeteer is Giuseppe Balsamo who has nachgehend under the name Cagliostro in Paris his conspiratorial activity, decided to use the whole intrigue. Just like the La Motte he is arrested, but is soon free again, because you can not prove anything against him, while the Countess is the beginning of 1786 publicly branded, flogged and then imprisoned for life.
However, the real damage has the innocent to Marie Antoinette. The prestige of the monarchy has suffered severely from the affair. The plan Balsamos to drive it in the full Ruin, took a major step.
A secondary line of the novel tells the love story of the young Count Olivier de Charny and Queen Marie Antoinette, in which the readers of the first volume known siblings Philippe and Andrea de Taverney are entangled. The just returned home from America Olivier is not only fiery, but also careless in his youth. When Louis XVI. one day in a moment emerges as Charny Queen at their feet confesses his love, explains Marie Antoinette to her husband, the young Count had stopped for the hand of her maid Andrea. So must it Andrea, the Olivier worshiped even passionate, in a duty to consent to marriage, knowing that her husband will never love. Philippe, in turn, leaves the sister and Versailles to search on a research expedition to the death, which was denied him in the American War of Independence.