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A confidence trickster who called herself Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, also known as Jeanne de la Motte, made a plan to use the necklace to gain wealth and possibly power and royal patronage. A descendant of an out-of-wedlock son of Henry II of France , Jeanne had married an officer of the gendarmes , Nicholas de la Motte , the self-proclaimed ...
Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, orphaned at an early age, is determined to reclaim her noble title and the home taken from her family when she was a child.When she is rebuffed by Marie Antoinette and fails to achieve her goal through legal channels, she joins forces with the arrogant, well-connected gigolo Rétaux de Villette and her own wayward, womanizing husband Nicholas.
Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, self proclaimed "Comtesse de la Motte" (22 July 1756 [1] – 23 August 1791) was a French noblewoman, notorious adventuress and a thief; she was married to Nicholas de la Motte whose family's claim to nobility was dubious. [2]
"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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The strip was originally published in Tintin magazine in 1965 before coming out in book form in 1967. With S.O.S. Meteors and The Time Trap, it forms the final instalment of a trilogy of adventures that take place in France featuring many of the same characters—Blake, Mortimer and their contact Pradier.
Jeanne Caroline Smith Carr (1825–1903) was a prolific American newspaper correspondent and an educator who served as Deputy California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. An expert in botany and horticulture , [ 1 ] Carr is chiefly remembered as a mentor of John Muir , with whom she had a public and platonic, yet warm and intimate ...