The Writer: Suzannah Rowntree. Visit Suzannah's Blog and Website.
When my sister asked me to write a handmade-gemstone-jewellery-related article for her site, I knew exactly what I had to write about.
History is full of thrilling stories that no mere writer of fiction could ever get away with. And one of the most remarkable stories in history is that of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace—a scandal that rocked a nation, ruined more than one fortune, and condemned a queen to death.
Our story begins in 1772 in France. The Revolution is less than twenty years away; but the tide of popular resentment has not yet arisen to sweep away the ancien regime. The old King of France, Louis XV, successor to the famous Louis XIV, lives in luxury in Versailles with his pampered family, with his fabulously wealthy courtiers...and with the most pampered and fabulous woman in France: Madame du Barry, his mistress.
Du Barry was loud and ostentatious, but she was also young and pretty, and it was no secret why the king was so crazy about her. The twenty-four-hour cabaret performance that was Madame du Barry upset one of the few people at the court who had no reason to fear her influence. The fourteen-year-old princess from Austria who had just come to France to marry the future Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, disliked Madame du Barry's CONTINUE READING THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE
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