The Queen's Necklace

The Queen's Necklace
AuthorAlexandre Dumas
in collaboration with Auguste Maquet
Original titleLe Collier de la reine
LanguageFrench
GenreHistorical novel
Publication date
1849- 1850 (serialised)
Publication placeFrance
Preceded byJoseph Balsamo 
Followed byAnge Pitou 

The Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an episode involving fraud and royal scandal that made headlines at the court of Louis XVI in the 1780s.