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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.
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Gervaise refuses and leaves. However, he comes back the next day with the necklace, claiming it is a magical necklace. The vain princess believes that Gervaise's necklace must be the source of the mysterious woman's beauty and agrees to exchange necklaces. However, as soon as her fingers wrap around the necklace, she herself becomes a bead.
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.
After the death of her aunt, the protagonist Charlotte and her aunt’s stepson Arthur Prime, find a tin of imitation jewelry which includes a string of pearls.Charlotte is immediately fascinated with the pearls, and wonders if they could be a gift from when her aunt was an actress.
Jenna, who was touched by the sentiment, asked Hoda, "Do you feel like 'Mom' is the best title?" And Hoda agreed instantly. "The 'M' is so me.That would be the initial I would want to wear if not ...
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.
A special form of necklace produced around 1900 was the lavallière, an imaginative allusion to a fashion named for the actress Ève Lavallière, suspending two overlapping pendants, generally of different lengths. The necklace itself often consisted of a simple silk cord with diamond sliding motifs, in which the imaginative end motifs were ...