The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas père

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Title: The Queen's Necklace

Author: Alexandre Dumas père

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Language: English

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The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes

THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE

Illustrated with Drawings on Wood by Eminent French and American Artists

[Illustration: CAGLIOSTRO AND OLIVA Dumas, Vol. Eight]

[Illustration]

New York P.F. Collier and Son MCMIV

THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE.

PROLOGUE.--THE PREDICTIONS.

AN OLD NOBLEMAN AND AN OLD MAÎTRE-D'HÔTEL.

It was the beginning of April, 1784, between twelve and one o'clock. Our old acquaintance, the Marshal de Richelieu, having with his own hands colored his eyeb

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