Can one scandal that spreads all over the country topple an entire regime? An extraordinary French woman answered that question. Jeanne De La Motte Valois is obsessed with restoring her family's reputation, which will change the fate of a great queen and add to the tensions of the revolution that is about to engulf the country.
Jeanne is a charming and unusual woman who breaks all the rules and devises a brilliant and risky conspiracy to maliciously vilify the powerful rich and famous, and make a fortune for Queen Marie-Antoinette ( Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI sent the guillotine to set the stage, ending 800 years of absolute monarchy in one fell swoop. Now, Jenny's story has been brought to the screen, recreated with modern glamour. "The Necklace Incident" is a part of the most prolific legend in history, and at the same time adds a distinct period characteristic: what will happen when great greed and great power converge? But the story is about a brave woman's obsession with restoring what was unjustly taken from her. This obsession puts at risk all who stand in her way.
Sometimes the price of revenge is expensive, and the price she pays is priceless.
Although not actually well known in The United States of America, L'Affaire du Collier (L'Affaire du Collier) has always been rather notorious throughout Europe. In fact, Napoleon said: Three factors contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution - the Rossbach fiasco in the Seven Years' War , Dutch non-intervention, and the "Necklace Incident". While military blunders and domestic calamities made the revolutionary situation even more tense, Napoleon insisted that the fatal blow was that singular court event, including: a disenfranchised woman, a royal, and the most spectacular in all of Europe the string of jewelry.
What fascinates historians and the makers of The Necklace, however, is that the game of arrogance that brought down the nation was almost entirely determined by the perfect conspiracy of one woman.
All of this comes from the heart of Jeanne de la Motte Valois (Hilary Swank), whose purpose is not personal wealth, but an obsession with fame. Although Jeanne was born in the direct line of King Henry II of France in the sixteenth century, her parents were deprived of court rights after falling out of favor with the royal family. Before long, young Jenny is unfortunately orphaned, and her only inheritance is a broken family tree that attests to her noble birth. Jeanne then dedicates her life to her sole purpose: to reclaim her estate and take her rightful place at the Palace of Versailles.
First, she had to enter the court first. Jeanne is married to a Count Nicolas de la Motte (Adrien Brody), whose title is not very clear, and is in a hurry to marry, does this husband really love? She, then God knows. Once inside the palace, she leaned on a court rogue, Retaux de Villete (Simon Baker). He told her everything he knew about court life, and the people he didn't like. However, while Jenny went to great lengths to win the favor of the court and restore her family's reputation, she was met with a cold rejection. Her only option is to buy back her reputation, but to do so, she will need a lot of money. So Jenny came up with a brilliant and dangerous plan--a plan that reckoned with nothing.
At the heart of Jenny's plan was a spectacular and repulsive string of jewels -- a 2,800-carat necklace of 647 diamonds, so expensive that no royal family in all of Europe could afford it. The diamond necklace was made by a French royal jeweler for the wife of King Louis XV, but before it was completed, the king died and his wife was kicked out of the court. Queen Antoinette rejected the jeweler's masterpiece, and they faced the dilemma of impending bankruptcy. In a hurry to sell the necklace, they began looking for ways to approach the queen more carefully.
The irresistibly charming Jeanne-de-la-Motte-Valois entered their sights.
The jewellers of the royal family took it for granted that Jeanne was someone close to Queen Antoinette, and they begged her to intercede for them in the presence of the queen. At this time, Jeanne has just negotiated a middleman: Louis de Rohan (Jonathan Pryce, Jonathan Pryce), he is the cardinal of all France, a legendary prodigal son. Rohan was desperate to be prime minister, but Marie-Antoinette often ruined his good and looked down on him. In order to make the plan go smoothly, Jeanne bought the "genius" Count Cagliostro (Christopher Walken), a hypnotist (Svengali) whose words always Used as a creed by Cardinal Rohan.
Jeanne uses all her skills, including her wit, charm and beauty, to convince the cardinal that Queen Antoinette wants to be reunited with him. She went on to persuade him that, due to growing public dissatisfaction with Marie-Antoinette's excessively promiscuous behavior, the queen wanted him to pay for the extravagant necklace so that no one would know it. Rohan had been fooled - and he was even more convinced when Jenny suggested that the Queen might repay him with his dream of being Prime Minister. Unexpectedly, Jenny's plan was to take the necklace as her own and sell the diamonds to buy back her reputation as a "cheap".
