Dive Into The Story Of The Diamond Necklace: Told In Detail For The First Time By The Aid Of Contemporary Memoirs, Original Letters, And Official And Other Documents; And Comprising A Sketch Of The Life Of The Countess De La Motte, Pretended Confidant Of Marie-Anto Created By Henry Richard Vizetelly Published As Leaflet

from The Story of the Diamond Necklace: Told in Detail for the First Time by the Aid of Contemporary Memoirs, Original Letters, and Official and Other Documents And Comprising a Sketch of the Life of the Countess De La Motte, Pretended Confidant of MarieAntoinette, With Particulars of the Car

The great scandal of the Diamond Necklace, which to the clear vision of Goethe presaged the coming Revolution, and in which the quickwitted Talleyrand saw

the overthrow of the French throne, possesses an interest akin to that of the French Revolution itself.
The story is one Of which the world does not seem to tire, for it has been told scores upon scores of times, and more or less recently, by historians, biographers, essayists, memoirwriters, anecdotists.
Novelists, and dramatists, and in wellnigh every European lan guage, In the form in which it appears in the Memorials and Judicial Examinations of the parties accused of complicity in the fraud, it has been pronounced the greatest lie Of the eighteenth century, and numerous active brains have essayed to unravel its tangled web Of truth and falsehood nevertheless, there are many persons who still think that a certain mystery envelops the trans action which all the research hitherto bestowed upon it has failed to satisfactorily clear up.


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Henry Richard VizetellyJulyJanuarywas an English publisher and writer, He started the publications Pictorial Times and Illustrated Times, wrote several books while working in Paris and Berlin as correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and infounded a publishing house in London, Vizetelly Company.
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