TIL of Jeanne de-Valois-Saint-Rémy, a frenchwoman con-artist who tricked a Cardinal into buying a $15.1m diamond necklace pretending to be a confident of Marie Antoinette. This led to irreparable reputational harm to the Crown, bringing further support to the French Revolution.
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JPHutchy01 t1_j19xd2x wrote
The podcaster Mike Duncan covered this in an episode of the brilliant and sadly ending podcast Revolutions. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/2014/08/34-necker-and-the-necklace.html