Marie-Antoinette et le collier de la mort

Overview

In 1772, France’s King Louis XV commissions Parisian jewelers, Messieurs Bassange and Boehmer, to create a diamond necklace. The king dies before he pays for the elaborate multi-million-dollar piece, leaving the jewelers strapped for cash and struggling to find a buyer. Convinced by a friend to win back the favor of the queen, Marie Antoinette, Cardinal de Rohan steps up to buy it on her behalf. After a 13-year search, the desperate jewelers think their problem is finally solved… until they find themselves at the center of a scandal that will change the course of history. This tale of greed, deception, and fraud is based on the true story of Marie-Antoinette and the famous necklace scandal.

This story strategically weaves high-level language structures into a compelling story based on high-frequency vocabulary. Even upper-level language students need repeated exposure to language structures in order to acquire them, and our advanced beginner readers maintain a high-frequency factor of core language structures, thus helping learners progress beyond typical proficiency levels.

Features

• Level 2 and up
• Past tense
• Unique word count: 225
• Total word count: 5475
• Page count: 64
• Audio recording embedded in the Student and Teacher Editions
• A 270-page Teacher's Guide is also available!