It was described as "a row of seventeen glorious diamonds, as large almost as filberts. In the meantime, Louis XV died of smallpox and his grandson and successor banished Madame du Barry from the court. It would take the jewellers several years and a great deal of money to amass an appropriate set of diamonds. He requested that Parisian jewelers Charles Auguste Boehmer and Paul Bassange create a diamond necklace that would surpass all others in grandeur. In 1772, Louis XV of France decided to make Madame du Barry, with whom he was infatuated, a special gift at the estimated cost of 2,000,000 livres (approximately US$15.1 million in 2021). "The Queen's necklace", reconstruction, Château de Breteuil, France Although Jeanne was later convicted, the event remains historically significant as one of many that led to the French disillusionment with the monarchy, in that it was one of the contemporary scandals that gave moral weight and popular support for the French Revolution. In reality, she rejected the idea of buying it only to have her signature forged by Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy. 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.
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace ( French: Affaire du collier de la reine, "Affair of the Queen's Necklace") was an incident from 1784 to 1785 at the court of King Louis XVI of France that involved his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. At the death of the King, the necklace was unpaid for, which almost bankrupted the jewellers and then led to various unsuccessful schemes to secure a sale to Queen Marie Antoinette. The diamond necklace was commissioned by Louis XV of France for his mistress, Madame du Barry.
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