Countess Jeanne And The Necklace Scam

As a forgotten descendent of a dying royal bloodline, Jeanne admires and envies Marie Antoinette, a woman whom she sees as a beacon of the aristocratic life to which she should have been entitled. Driven by greed and delusion Jeanne pairs with a poetic young gigolo named Rétaux in an attempt to syphon funds, under the guise of the Queen, from the lovelorn Cardinal Rohan.

When an opportunity presents itself to escalate the con and defraud the monarchy of a two million franc necklace Jeanne must manipulate and lie her way past her husband, doppelgangers and even the French courts in order to reclaim her birth right and, in doing so, she finds some truth hidden amongst her lies.

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