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The Necklace (French: La Parure) is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is known for its twist ending (ironic ending), which was a hallmark of de Maupassant's style. The story was first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois .
The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace , an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.
"The Queen's Necklace", one of the stories in the collection Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar by Maurice Leblanc; The Queen's Necklace: A Swedish Folktale, a children's book by Helena Nyblom; The Queen's Necklace, a novel by Antal Szerb; Queen's Necklace, a board game by Bruno Faidutti and Bruno Cathala; a popular name for Marine Drive, Mumbai
Mary De Morgan, the youngest daughter of distinguished mathematician Augustus De Morgan, was born in 7 Camden Street, London, on 24 February 1850. [8] In her youth, Mary earned herself a reputation for tactlessness, apparently at one point telling Henry Holiday, "All artists are fools!
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al-ʿIqd al-Farīd (The Unique Necklace, Arabic: العقد الفريد) is an anthology attempting to encompass 'all that a well-informed person had to know in order to pass in society as a cultured and refined individual' (or adab), [1] composed by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860–940), an Arab writer and poet from Córdoba in Al-Andalus.
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The gang is arrested, but one man manages to escape, taking the necklace with him. The man is later arrested but the necklace is not found. Mr Goon and the children are now searching for the missing necklace before the last remaining gang member finds the necklace. The Find-Outers later find the necklace, and the last man of the gang is arrested.