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"The Necklace", or sometimes "The Diamond Necklace", (French: La Parure) is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. [1] It is known for its twist ending , a hallmark of de Maupassant's style.
There is a box of jewels near Ariadne in the foreground, with a necklace falling out of it. Ariadne is alone in her despair. Sarah Wadstrom, in her masters thesis, compares Ariadne's pose to a woman's pose reacting to the massacre of Agamemnon in plate 148 of Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti, the Death of Agamemnon. Connections are drawn ...
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (French: Affaire du collier de la reine, "Affair of the Queen's Necklace") was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France that involved his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette.
The Item: Diamond drop earrings and a diamond necklace The Significance: Princess Eugenie, 33, who is expecting her second child, arrived at the coronation alongside her father, Prince Andrew, and ...
Polynices offering Eriphyle the necklace of Harmonia; Attic red-figure oenochoe ca. 450–440 BC. Louvre museum. The Necklace of Harmonia, also called the Necklace of Eriphyle, was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill-fated House of Thebes.
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 Necklace Affair is generally considered one of Jacobs' weaker "Blake and Mortimer" stories. It is the only "pure" crime story within the Blake and Mortimer series, and it is the only one that doesn't include any science-fiction element.
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