The Queen's Necklace: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Queen's Necklace, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas. Read in English by Gail Timmerman Vaughan The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "The Diamond Necklace Affair". The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the discrediting of the Marie Antoinette and the monarchy of Louis XVI prior to the French Revolution. The backdrop is the rebellious state of the French people due in part to adverse weather and crop failures affecting the food supply and price of bread during the 1780s, contrasted to the extravagance of the French monarchy. The Queen's Necklace is the 3rd novel in the Marie Antoinette series by Alexandre Dumas. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Queen's Necklace
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 94
• Listed recording duration: 12:20:46

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Opening tracks: first 24 of 94

1. 01 - PROLOGUE, Part I. THE PREDICTIONS — 13:05
2. 02 - PROLOGUE, Part II. M. DE LA PEROUSE — 47:19
3. 03 - I. TWO UNKNOWN LADIES — 12:09
4. 04 - II. AN INTERIOR — 8:04
5. 05 - III. JEANNE DE LA MOTTE VALOIS — 15:50
6. 06 - IV. BELUS — 8:16
7. 07 - V. THE ROAD TO VERSAILLES — 10:38
8. 08 - VI. LAURENT — 14:25
9. 09 - VII. THE QUEEN'S BED-CHAMBER — 17:22
10. 10 - VIII. THE QUEEN'S PETITE LEVEE — 12:01
11. 11 - IX. THE SWISS LAKE — 6:33
12. 12 - X. THE TEMPTER — 8:22
13. 13 - XI. M. DE SUFFREN — 9:18
14. 14 - XII. M. DE CHARNY — 7:39
15. 15 - XIII. THE ONE HUNDRED LOUIS OF THE QUEEN — 4:03
16. 16 - XIV. M. FINGRET — 6:52
17. 17 - XV. THE CARDINAL DE ROHAN — 14:37
18. 18 - XVI. MESMER AND ST. MARTIN — 5:58
19. 19 - XVII. THE BUCKET — 9:37
20. 20 - XVIII. MADEMOISELLE OLIVIA — 7:49
21. 21 - XIX. MONSIEUR BEAUSIRE — 4:39
22. 22 - XX. GOLD — 5:58
23. 23 - XXI. LA PETITE MAISON — 15:47
24. 24 - XXII. SOME WORDS ABOUT THE OPERA — 3:07

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