
by Antal Szerb (Author)
In August 1785 Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything - an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 28 May 2013
ISBN 10: 1908968419
ISBN 13: 9781908968418