Showing posts with label Diamonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diamonds. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2022

Can O' History - Affair of the Diamond Necklace

 




The Affair of the Diamond Necklace was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France that involved his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette.

The Queen's reputation, already tarnished by gossip, was ruined by the false implication that she had participated in a crime to defraud the Crown's jewellers in acquiring a very expensive diamond necklace she then refused to pay for. In reality, she rejected the idea of buying it only to have her signature forged by Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy. Although Jeanne was later convicted, the event remains historically significant as one of many that led to the French disillusionmen

https://www.history.com/news/marie-antoinette-diamond-necklace-affair-french-revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Diamond_Necklace

Friday, June 4, 2021

11 Harrowhouse (1974)

 


Directed by Aram Avakian. Charles Grodin. Diamond heist. Grodin wrote the script. I have the book by Gerald Browne and ordered the DVD when it was released by Shout! Factory because it had been unavailable. Candice Bergen, James Mason, John Gielgud. Pretty solid 70s thriller. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_Harrowhouse

http://every70smovie.blogspot.com/2013/02/11-harrowhouse-1974.html