{"id":27746,"date":"2014-09-10T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27746"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:30:02","slug":"ruining-royal-reputations-it-didnt-start-on-fleet-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/ruining-royal-reputations-it-didnt-start-on-fleet-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruining royal reputations &#8211; it didn&#8217;t start on Fleet Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/culture\/books\/marie-antoinettes-downfall-and-a-2800-carat-necklace\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Treble<\/a> reviews a new book by Jonathan Beckman, called <em>How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three years before revolutionaries toppled Louis XVI and his Austrian-born wife, Marie Antoinette, France was mesmerized with a different tumult. Cardinal Louis de Rohan, scion of one of the nation\u2019s grandest families, was in court, accused of stealing a famously expensive necklace from jewellers who\u2019d created it. He claimed he\u2019d acted at the behest of the queen, who then reneged on paying for the gaudy 2,800-carat piece. The resultant scandal solidi\ufb01ed Marie Antoinette\u2019s reputation for unbounded extravagance.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as Jonathan Beckman, explains in a masterful new account of the diamond necklace affair, nothing is as it appeared. There are fake royals, forged letters and disappearing gems as well as kidnappings, trysts and even a duel involving poisoned pigs. If the tale was fictional, it would be dismissed as an overwrought fantasy, yet in Beckman\u2019s hands, its machinations unfold as an audacious caper that will enthrall readers much as the original events captivated Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maclean&#8217;s, Patricia Treble reviews a new book by Jonathan Beckman, called How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair: Three years before revolutionaries toppled Louis XVI and his Austrian-born wife, Marie Antoinette, France was mesmerized with a different tumult. Cardinal Louis de Rohan, scion of one of the nation\u2019s grandest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,62,1117,7,28],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-27746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-europe","category-france","category-history","category-media","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27747,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27746\/revisions\/27747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}