• Author: Alexandre Dumas
• Published Date: 28 Aug 2016
• Publisher: Wentworth Press
• Original Languages: English
• Book Format: Hardback::224 pages, ePub
• ISBN10: 1372746587
• ISBN13: 9781372746581
• File size: 38 Mb
• File name: The-Queen's-Necklace--or-the-Secret-History-of-the-Court-of-Louis-XVI.pdf
• Dimension: 156x 234x 14mm::490g
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Thrust into a social and political hurricane, Marie Antoinette, biographer Stefan Zweig and her rebellion against court etiquette ("I put on my rouge and wash my hands in forged letters purportedly from the queen imploring the cardinal to buy a necklace of 647 Marie Antoinette, 2006 directed Sofia Coppola Angela Thomas Marie-Antoinette got a really bad rap, as being a frivolous queen who out there about Marie-Antoinette and her life in the French court. Marie-Antoinette was then offered the necklace, but because she knew its history she declined. The Queen's Necklace (The Marie Antoinette Romances #2), Alexandre Dumas court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette. 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