In April 1784 the aged Marshal de Richelieu dines with old friends, and Cagliostro is among his guests. From there Dumas spins the true affair of the diamond necklace: the scheming Jeanne de la Motte Valois, the infatuated Cardinal de Rohan, a forged royal signature and the scandal that blackened Marie Antoinette’s name.
A vivid installment of Dumas’s Marie Antoinette romances, written with Auguste Maquet. Download the free EPUB.