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	Affair of the diamond necklace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The affair of the diamond necklace was a mysterious incident in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI of France involving the queen Marie Antoinette.
		The Affair was historically significant as one of the events that led to the French populace's disillusionment with the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
		The affair of the necklace was important in discrediting the French monarchy in the years before the Revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Affair_of_the_diamond_necklace (1461 words)

	DIAMOND - LoveToKnow Article on DIAMOND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Diamond possesses a brilliant adamantine lustre, but this tends to be greasy on the surface of the natural stones and gives the rounded crystals somewhat the appearance of drops of gum.
		Diamond may break with a conchoidal fracture, but the crystals always cleave readily along planes parallel to the octahedron faces: of this property the diamond cutters avail themselves when reducing the stone to the most convenient form for cutting; a sawing process, has, however, now been introduced, which is preferable to that of cleavage.
		Diamonds are now employed not only for faceting precious stones, but also for cutting and drilling glass, porcelain, andc,; for fine engraving such as scales; in dentistry for drilling; as a turning tool for electric-light carbons, hard rubber, andc.; and occasionally for finishing accurate turning work such as the axle of a transit instrument.
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	Necklace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Necklaces are frequently formed from a metal chain; often attached to a locket or pendant.
		A necklace worn high on the neck is a choker.
		A necklace sometimes refers to necklacing, a form of execution in which a rubber tire, filled with kerosene, is forced around a victim's chest and arms and set on fire.
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	AllRefer.com - Diamond Necklace, Affair of the (French History) - Encyclopedia
		In the interview the cardinal was led to believe that the queen wished to acquire a diamond necklace of enormous value and that she had chosen him as her confidential agent.
		When Rohan obtained the necklace from the jewelers, he turned it over to the comtesse; her husband took it to London, where it was broken up for sale.
		The queen, noted for her extravagance and frivolity, was unjustly implicated in the affair; her enemies hinted that she had schemed to ruin the cardinal or that she had used her favor to obtain the necklace and then refused to pay.
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	14k Gold Necklace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Necklacing refers to the practice of execution carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with gasoline, around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire.
		Necklacing sentences were sometimes handed down against alleged criminals by "people's courts" established in fl townships after residents had lost confidence in the apartheid judicial system.
		Necklacing was also used to punish offenders, including children, alleged to be traitors to the liberation movement as well as their relatives and associates.
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	Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Britannica Concise
		The necklace was the property of the Parisian firm of jewelers Boehmer and Bassenge, who had tried unsuccessfully to sell it, first to Louis XV as a present for his mistress Madame du Barry and later to Louis XVI for the queen.
		Affair of the Diamond Necklace - (1785) Scandal at the court of Louis XVI that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution.
		Affair of the Diamond Necklace - scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution.
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	Search Results for "Diamond" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		diamond, mineral, one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon (see allotropy), the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.
		Diamond Head, peak, 761 ft (232 m) high, along the rim of an extinct volcano, SE Oahu island, Hawaii.
		Diamond Necklace, Affair of the, scandal that took place at the court of King Louis XVI of France just before the French Revolution.
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	The Rose of Versailles - French History
		This culminated in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which discredited the monarchy and encouraged the nobles to oppose all the financial reforms proposed by the King's ministers.
		Widely regarded as a greedy, drunken womanizer, he was an apparent dupe in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace.
		Affair of the Diamond Necklace: A scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy at the eve of the Revolution.
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	Affair of the Diamond Necklace -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		also called Affair of the Necklace scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution.
		The necklace was the property of the Parisian…;
		Duped into undertaking the purchase of a necklace for Queen Marie-Antoinette, without her authority and without funds of his own, he was tried for fraud and acquitted but was...
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	Diamond Necklaces: Diamond Source of Virginia Diamond Rings and Jewelry
		The allure and fascination with the diamond necklace is not a new phenomenon.
		The focal point of the diamond necklace was the Hope Diamond, weighing 45.52 carats and breathtaking in it's extremely rare deep blue color.
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	Jones Jewelers : Celebrated Diamonds
		The 109-carat diamond was first a treasure of the Mughal emperors of ancient India, along with the famous Peacock Throne, an extravagant work of diamonds, emeralds and rubies.
		The Koh-i-noor was seized by Persia's Nadir Shah in the sack of Delhi in 1739.
		"The Affair of the Diamond Necklace" began in 1785 when a certain Cardinal de Rohan's mistress led him to believe that the Marie Antoinette was in love with him and had authorized him to buy a necklace of diamonds for her.
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	The Diamond Necklace Affair » Diamonds Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Affair of the diamond necklace involved a mysterious incident in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI of France, which involved the queen Marie Antoinette.
		The 'Diamond Necklace Affair' When the Cardinal de Rohan presented Marie-Antoinette with a sparkling riviÃ¨re, a loud and brash necklace, he was attempting to make a position for himself at court.
		Affair of the Necklace is a romantic drama based on the controversial true story of Jeanne De La Motte Valois, a countess whose name was stripped from her by the Royal Family during the late 18th Century.
	www.diamondringtips.com /dte/the-diamond-necklace-affair.html (510 words)

	Affair
		An affair is a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit sexual, romantic and/or passionate attachment, usually for a limited duration.
		The euphemism is also applied to marital infidelity where one partner has an outside sexual relationship: a liaison[?].
		Affairs in the political sense may be any kind of involvement in illicit business by any kind by public representatives, such as in the Watergate affair.
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	Marie Antoinette Online
		First was a choker of seventeen diamonds, five to eight carats each; from that hung a three-wreathed festoon and pendants; then came the necklace proper, a double row of diamonds cumulating in an eleven-carat stone, finally, hanging from the necklace four knotted tassel.
		For months, the nation was gripped by the mystery of the diamond necklace and the recounting of the Queen's reputation that led Rohan to believe she had participated.
		The fortune she and her husband shared from the necklace was enhanced by the amounts made from the sales in France of her best-selling pamphlets against the Queen.
	www.marie-antoinette.org /necklaceeng.php (2740 words)

	Diamond 3 Adfunk Internet Solutions Article
		The diamond as found in nature (called a rough diamond) is cut, for use in jewelry, into various forms with many reflecting faces, or facets, by which its brilliancy is much increased.
		Diamonds are said to be of the first water when very transparent, and of the second or third water as the transparency decreases.
		Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
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	Diamond Necklace - and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Diamond Necklace - Steinmetz diamond group is a rough diamond trader and master cutter, most widely known for producing the millennium star, the 203-carat centrepiece of the diamonds exhibit at the millennium dome.A material that is harder than diamond has been created in the lab, by packing together tiny nanorods of carbon.
		diamonds is the 23rd chart album of cooper s.Gunmen have taken control of natural resources such as gold, diamonds and rubber and are mining and tapping illegally.
		export ban for timber and diamonds and smuggling is widespread.The light poles atop the stadium framed the blue court and the lowering sun made williams diamonds shine all the more.
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	Diamond Discussion - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this graceful necklace gleaming sterling silver is crafted into a lariat style chain adorned with polished silver beads and ovals.
		A trio of gold rings yellow gold white gold and pink gold are studded with gypsy-set round diamonds and float gracefully on a yellow gold box chain.
		The T shape of the pendant is stamped from shining white gold and accented with a sprinkling of sparkling diamonds.
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	The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
		Carlyle noted in a letter to his brother that "my attempt was to make reality ideal...the story of the Diamond Necklace is all told in that paper with the strictest fidelity, yet in a kind of musical way".
		These contained her own highly slanted version of her life and the Diamond Necklace Affair, as well as some thirty pieces of correspondence she claimed had passed between the Cardinal and the Queen.
		Vizetelly's style, though Victorian in flavor, is easier to deal with than that of most of his contemporaries, and he brings the story of the Countess, the Queen and the Cardinal to life once again as the players strut upon the stage of history and tragedy...
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	Freemasonry in cinema : Affair of the Diamond Necklace
		Freemasonry in cinema : Affair of the Diamond Necklace
		In a voice over, Christopher Walken, as Cagliostro is introduced erroneously: "He is Grand Master of the Illuminati, the German mystic elite." The events of this affair occurred in 1785 while the first edicts for the suppression of the Bavarian Illuminati had been issued in 1784.
		Although Cagliostro was claimed by the Inquisition of Rome to have been commissioned by the "Grand Masters of the Illuminati", and the Abbé Barruel reports Starcke's accusation that Cagliostro was commissioned in Paris by the Lodge Amis Rèunis, Cagliostro's name does not appear in any of Weishaupt or Knigge's published papers.
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	Diamond Necklace, Affair of the on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DIAMOND NECKLACE, AFFAIR OF THE [Diamond Necklace, Affair of the] scandal that took place at the court of King Louis XVI of France just before the French Revolution.
		Diamonds In The Ruff: Hilary Swank trades in her crew cut for a corset in The Affair of the Necklace, a treasury of costumed jewels without any sparkle.(Review)
		Culture: Hollywood mix of turkey and cheese; The Affair Of The Necklace: Approach with caution.(Features)
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	Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts: Diamond Necklace Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Affair of the Diamond Necklace was a sensational, elaborate confidence game involving the Comtesse de la Motte, her husband, Cardinal Rohan, the Parisian jewelry firm of Böhmer and Bassenge, possibly Marie Antoinette, and a diamond necklace valued at 1,600,000 livres.
		Arrests were made and an absolutely electrifying trial held in which the cardinal was acquitted, the countess was "condemned to be whipped, branded and shut up in the Salpetrière," and her husband, who had fled to England with the necklace, "was condemned.
		His testimony was the first in the trial directly to incriminate the La Mottes and to suggest strongly that the cardinal was innocent of involvement in any fraud—although it also exposed the ostensibly canny cardinal as capable, on the personal level, of almost incredible credulity.
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	DIAMOND NECKLACE, THE A... - Online Information article about DIAMOND NECKLACE, THE A...
		DIAMOND NECKLACE, THE AFFAIR OF THE, a mysterious incident at the See also:
		In any case the jewellers believed in the relations of the countess with the queen, and they resolved to use her to sell their necklace.
		purchase of the famous necklace for the 1,600,000 livres, payable in instalments.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DIAMOND_NECKLACE_THE_AFFAIR_OF_.html (2039 words)

	Plate from the Prince of Rohan Service, Sèvres Soft Paste Porcelain, 1771 CE
		Rohan is remembered for his role in the 'Diamond Necklace Affair' that scandalized European society of the time.
		The Diamond Necklace affair, was "also called Affair Of The Necklace, a scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 that discredited the French monarchy on the eve of the French Revolution.
		The Countess de La Motte suggested to the cardinal (Rohan) that the queen wished to acquire the necklace surreptitiously and would be prepared for a formal reconciliation at court if he would facilitate its purchase by negotiating with the jewelers.
	www.glendale.edu /ceramics/rohanservice.html (542 words)

	MSN Encarta - Marie-Antoinette
		Disliked by the French as a foreigner, she made herself more unpopular by her devotion to the interests of Austria, the bad reputations of some of her friends, and her extravagance, which was mistakenly blamed for the financial problems of the French government.
		Especially damaging was her supposed connection with the so-called Diamond Necklace affair (see Diamond Necklace, Affair of the), a scandal involving the fraudulent purchase of some jewels (1785).
		After the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, Marie-Antoinette sided with the intransigents at court who opposed compromise with the moderate revolutionaries, and began appealing for help to her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II.
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	ROJAS ZORRILLA, FRANCISCO DE - LoveToKnow Article on ROJAS ZORRILLA, FRANCISCO DE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rohan certainly was led to believe that his attentions to the queen were welcomed, and that his arrangement by which she received the famous necklace was approved.
		He was the dupe of others, and at the trial in 1786 before the parlement his acquittal was received with universal enthusiasm, and regarded as a victory over the court and the unpopular queen..
		See the Mmoires of his secretary, the abb Georgel, of the baroness dOberkirch, of Beugnot, and of Madame Campan; and works cited under DIAMOND NECKLAcE.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROJAS_ZORRILLA_FRANCISCO_DE.htm (2517 words)

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