The Diamond Necklace Affair

The new dauphin was a sickly kid, and he would die at just about the worst possible moment in the spring of 17 89. A few years later, though, the royal couple had a second son, who would also come to a miserable end at the hands of the evil revolutionaries. And then, enteen 86, a second daughter who would not live to see her first birthday. Now, through all this, marie antoinette continued to spend money, buy property, push for her own favorites to be given offices and pensions and gifts. Her standing with the french public was not good at all. But up an til the diamond neck affair, which we're