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Author | Alexandre Dumas in collaboration with Auguste Maquet |
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Original title | Le Collier de la reine |
Language | French |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publication date | 1849- 1850 (serialised) |
Publication place | France |
Preceded by | Joseph Balsamo |
Followed by | Ange Pitou |
The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.