How a Stolen Diamond Necklace Helped Destroy the French Monarchy — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history
Forged letters, stolen jewels, a gullible cardinal, a cunning conwoman and an innocent queen left with a shattered reputation … the affair of the diamond necklace had it all. In fact, after Marie Antoinette’s guillotining, Napoleon pinned her downfall on the scandal declaring “perhaps the death of t