The Queen's Necklace (French: Le Collier de la Reine), was written by French novelist, and playwright Alexandre Dumas. Originally published in French between 1849-50, and in English in 1894 by The Federal Book Company of New York. The work is a novel that is based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident of fraud, where the wife of King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette, was alleged to have participated in a crime to defraud the crown jewelers of an expensive diamond necklace. The queen, already tarnished by court rumour and gossip, had her reputation, and subsequently the reputation of the French monarchy ruined by this particular incident, that became a turning point as the nation lurched forward towards revolution.