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  1. May 14, 2018 · necklace in Christian iconography, a necklace is the emblem of St Etheldreda. In South Africa in the 1970s, necklace was used for a tyre doused or filled with petrol, placed round a victim's neck and set alight. See also Affair of the Diamond Necklace at diamond.

  2. The Affair of the Necklace. The controversial true story of Jeanne De La Motte Valois stars Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank ("Million Dollar Baby," "Insomnia ,"), as a countess whose name and title were stripped from her by the Royal Family, leaving her penniless in the late 18th Century. Her fight to restore her name and proper place in ...

  3. The Parisian jewellers Boehmer and Bassenge had spent years collecting precious stones for a necklace that they initially hoped to sell to Madame Du Barry, the favourite of Louis XV. Then, after the death of Louis XV in 1774, the jewellers hoped it could be a gift to the new queen of France, Marie Antoinette. Its cost at the time was 1,600,000 ...

  4. Nov 30, 2001 · Purchase The Affair of the Necklace on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Jeanne de la Motte-Valois knows what she wants. She also knows how to get it – by conniving, deceiving and betraying. And by doing it so scandalously that it helps send Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Wealth and desire. Politics and corruption. Celebrity and sexuality. Jeanne combines them all ...

  5. benoit-3 27 June 2002. The Affair of the Necklace is a film that has some qualities but only adds more layers of falsehoods to a story that is already fraught with them. This film is trying to make Jeanne de la Motte into an unjustly destitute noble heroine along the lines of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

  6. This sets in motion, a conspiracy of the highest level, involving betrayal, corruption, politics of the day, forgery, lust, power, involving an array of characters; Johnathan Pryce who gives a commanding performance as Rohan, Cardinal of all France and Blood Prince of the House of Rohan, the Jewellers who create the amazing diamond necklace in all of Europe, Adrian Brody as Jeanne's husband ...

  7. Jun 25, 2002 · This sets in motion, a conspiracy of the highest level, involving betrayal, corruption, politics of the day, forgery, lust, power, involving an array of characters; Johnathan Pryce who gives a commanding performance as Rohan, Cardinal of all France and Blood Prince of the House of Rohan, the Jewellers who create the amazing diamond necklace in all of Europe, Adrian Brody as Jeanne's husband ...

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