by Hugh Ross Williamson
The Affair of the Diamond
Necklace
Few people doubt nowadays that, in this scandal which rocked the throne of France on the eve of the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was the innocent victim of a monstrous fraud: or that the notorious ' con-woman,' Jeanne de la Motte , was justly arrested and imprisoned. The mystery is: Who helped Jeanne to escape from prison and make her way to England, and why?
