The Authentic Story of Marie Antoinette's Necklace
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In the pages of the book "The Authentic Story of Antoinette's Necklace," Olga Baskova has tried to shed light on one of the biggest mysteries preceding the French Revolution. Louis XVI was a weak king. Marie Antoinette preferred balls and entertainment. But would the people have dared to overthrow them from the throne if it weren't for the scandal associated with the legendary necklace of Madame Du Barry? The disappearance of which was blamed on a certain Jeanne de la Motte - the granddaughter of Henry Valois, an intriguer and writer, who went from a beggar to a socialite, from a fugitive to a countess, from an unnamed emigrant to a companion of the Russian empress's lady-in-waiting? The novel is written in the best traditions established by masters of the genre such as Alexandre Dumas and Maurice Druon. Olga Baskova studied the chronicle of one of the most interesting periods in French history, met with key figures of the great game, the results of which affected the choice of the path of further development of all of Europe, and presented this information in an artistic form, attempting to speculate on what remained hidden from scholars behind the veil of time. "The Authentic Story of Antoinette's Necklace" is an excursion into the past, full of intrigue, adventures, and dangerous secrets. The key moment of the book is an event that sparked the flame of the bloody revolution and set off a series of upheavals across the continent. The peculiarity of the novel is that the writer shifted the perspective and brought to the stage people whose names are not mentioned in school textbooks. Her characters are not kings or diplomats, not generals or heroes awarded medals for their deeds, not tyrants or usurpers, not artists or writers. All these iconic figures, capable of crushing empires and creating them from ashes, making the world beautiful or plunging it into the fire of war, leading humanity to harmony or chaos, come to power and sometimes lose it due to pure chance. Because of a ridiculous turn of events, an awkwardly dropped word, or a critical amount of intrigues being woven behind their backs. People, simple and not so, who freely or involuntarily create these coincidences, become the main actors in Olga Baskova's book "The Authentic Story of Antoinette's Necklace." The writer dedicated her work to renowned adventurers. The reader will meet Jeanne de La Motte and her friends, Count Cagliostro and his assistants on the pages. They will walk through the twists of the biography of the mysterious, unpredictable, and utterly incredible granddaughter of Henry Valois, who became a byword in her lifetime and a legend after death, wander through the back alleys of history, and try to piece together from disparate and seemingly unrelated facts a true picture of the past.
Author:
Author:Baskova Olga
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Modern Literature
Dimensions:
Dimensions:21x15.5x3 cm
ISBN:
ISBN:9785001873273
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