The Collar of the queen

the Collar of the queen is a Romance of Alexandre Dumas, published in the press in 1849 and 1850 (between the two the Révolution of 1848), freely inspired of the Affaire of the collar of the queen, swindle which defrayed the political and legal chronicle at the court of Louis XVI in the Années 1780.

The novel

The novel is initially appeared in the form of serial in the Press . The action occurs between 1784 and 1785.

This novel presents a idealized portrait of the Reine Marie-Antoinette but it shows also the " folie" nobility at that time, this one is completed on the " beginning of the fin" of this nobility.

This novel is the second of the series of the Mémoires of a doctor, preceded by Joseph Balsamo, followed by Ange Pitou and the Countess of Charny.

Sources

The first chapters of the novel, which put in scene a dinner in the old marshal of Richelieu, are inspired by a text of Jean-François of the Toothing-stone, Prophécie de Cazotte . In this passage, the count de Cagliostro predicted to the various guests (Perugia, the Countess of Barry, Condorcet or Gustave III of Sweden (the count Haga) the fine tragedy which awaits them, as well as the execution of Louis XVI. This Prolepse throws on the intrigue a tragic lighting, since the reader already knows that the efforts of the protagonists, in particular of the queen, to prove their innocence are dedicated to the failure.

  • Mrs. Campan, Memories on the private life of Marie-Antoinette , Baudouin, 1823.

Adaptations

The screen of the novel entirely or was partially included in various adaptations for the Cinéma and the Télévision, which also drew from the historical facts:

  • under the title the Collar of the queen :

  • under the title the Business of the collar :
    • the Business of the collar ( The Affair off the Necklace ), film carried out by Charles Shyer, left in 2001, whose screen takes again that of the Business of the collar of the queen, but whose elements could be drawn from the novel of Alexandre Dumas.
  • under the title the Business of the collar of the queen :

See too

Page of homonymy the Business of the collar of the queen

External bonds

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