- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Fiction (Aug 30 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061076163
- ISBN-13: 978-0061076169
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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The child Jeanne Valois lost her family, her home, and her fortune to the greed of an influential aristocrat. Now grown into a proud young woman of rare beauty and exceptional wiles, she has gained entrance to the court of Louis XVI and exquisite, reviled queen Marie Antoinette through an expedient marriage, seeking restitution for what was stolen from her. But Jeanne de La Motte-Valois's entreaties have fallen on deaf royal ears, inflaming her desire for justice...and vengeance.
In an era of excessive splendor, squalor, and cruelty, amid the myraid intrigues, both dangerous and erotic, that swirl around the powers of France, the brilliant stratagems of a woman wronged will eclipse all others -- as infamy, tragedy, and death loom in the shadows of a conspiracy that begins with a breathtaking vision of diamonds and gold...and ends with revolution.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Revisionist history, overly dramatized.,
By mys_reader "mys_reader" (Fort Worth, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Affair of the Necklace (Mass Market Paperback)
Not a bad book, if it had been completely fiction. But the glaring errors distracted from my enjoyment. As for the "script-like" quality, the book was written from a script. First - Jeanne did not have a happy childhood with loving Mommy and Daddy. She was NOT raised on the Valois estate. (Her father had sold off the land long ago.) Daddy was a drunk, not a nobleman brought down because he spoke out against injustice. Her parents did not have a happy marriage (they may not have been married at all). Her mother was a peasant and sometimes a prostitute. Jeanne was sent out to beg for money and beaten if she didn't bring enough home. With this childhood, it is little wonder she turned out to be a grifter and conwoman. But that is what she was. I don't know why the film-makers had to sanitize her character. She slept with both Rohan and Reteaux at the same time. She used anyone who could benefit HER. Her motive was money, not getting back her family's estate and rescuing the innocent peasantry. When she got that money, she spent it on HERSELF. And for the record, she died BEFORE Marie Antoinette. As for Marie Antoinette, she had THREE children at the time of the Scandal, and was pregnant with her fourth. They were not permitted to be spoiled, and would never have acted to others the way they were portrayed.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reads like a script,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Affair of the Necklace (Mass Market Paperback)
The plot is interesting, but the writing is more scriptlike than good literature. I wish that I had just waited to see the movie rather than taken the time to read this book.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Intresting but...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Affair of the Necklace (Mass Market Paperback)
I wanted to know more about this scandel but this book didn't go into the details I would have wanted. It's a movie book, and those as a rule are boring.
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