[COMPLETE] The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas - annise

[gailtv]

The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870). Translated by Unknown ( - 0)

This project is now complete! All audio files can now be found on the catalog page for this project: https://librivox.org/the-queens-necklace-by-alexandre-dumas/

The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on "The Diamond Necklace Affair", an actual scandal in the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during 1784-85. The Diamond Necklace Affair contributed to the discrediting of the monarchy of Louis XVI prior to the French Revolution and additionally to Marie Antoinette being portrayed by the political pamphleteers as a thief (false) and an adulteress (possibly true). The necklace was made of 647 diamonds, of approximately 2,800 carats, and was originally made for Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV. Most of the characters in The Queen's Necklace are based on real persons although in many respects Dumas's account is highly fictionalised. The backdrop is the rebellious state of the French people due in part to adverse weather, crop failures and price fixing affecting the food supply and price of bread during the 1780s and the deep indebtedness of the French government following the Seven Years War and involvement in the American Revolutionary War. This was contrasted to the extravagance of the French monarchy and the court. The Queen's Necklace is the 3rd novel in the Marie Antoinette series by Alexandre Dumas. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan)

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  [*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Alexandre Dumas) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas
  
  [*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen's_Necklace
  [*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 50
  [*]Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
  [*]Original publication date (if known): 1849 to 1850
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Genres for the project: Action & Adventure Fiction; Historical Fiction

Keywords that describe the book: to be added before cataloguing

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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):

• "Chapter [number] of The Queen's Necklace. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
• If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
• Say:
  "The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Unknown Unknown ( - 0) [Chapter]"

For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:

• "Chapter [number] of The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas. Translator Unknown ( - 0) This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
• If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
• Only if applicable, say:
  "[Chapter title]"

END of recording:

• At the end of the section, say:
  "End of [Chapter]"
• If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
• At the end of the book, say (in addition):
  "End of The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Unknown Unknown ( - 0)"

There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.

[*]Example filename queensnecklace_##_dumas_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. queensnecklace_01_dumas_128kb.mp3)

[*]Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Alexandre Dumas
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: The Queen's Necklace


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Any questions?
Please post below[/list]

[elsieselwyn]

Do you have a DPL in mind? If not, I'd be happy to do it.

[annise]

Thanks for the offer but we do have a volunteer - I'll set it up now so everyone knows
Done,
I'll be a proper expert on Queen's necklaces, it's not long since I catalogued the Queen of Sheba's Necklace

[craigdav1]

A "mint cookie" crumb this time. It's that time of year.

[annise]

Might at least be a hot cross bun cookie

[gailtv]

Hi Anne and David --

Thank you both.

Anne - thanks for setting up so quickly.

I am thinking right now that I will record the Prologue just slowly since it is so long. Other Chapters may appear before the Prologue does. The content of the Prologue is not needed for the first Chapters. It concern's Dumas's favourite villain - Cardinal Richelieu.

Cheers

Gail

[annise]

You could split it it if you wished? In that case it would probably be better to change the MW to start at 01 and have 01 and 02 as the prologue rather than have it 00 and 01 .

Anne

[gailtv]

You could split it it if you wished? In that case it would probably be better to change the MW to start at 01 and have 01 and 02 as the prologue rather than have it 00 and 01 .

Anne

Hi Anne -

I think that splitting the prologue into 2 parts might be best and starting the MW at 01. It is even written as Part I and Part II.

I can't figure out how to do that for myself -- is that something that only the MC can do? Is that a lot of work for you? Don't worry about the effect on the Chapter stuff that I have put in so far - that only took a couple of minutes.

Thanks!

Gail

[annise]

It's really backbreaking work for me, I have to open the workflow, and then change a 0 to 1 and a 50 sections to 51 - Oh the problems of this job

Anne
And I've managed to do it , and added a section AND moved it to the right place
You don't need the numbers any more - the cataloguing page adds them, so if you take them out and change 00-preface to just Preface part 1 etc it will be perfect

[gailtv]

It's really backbreaking work for me, I have to open the workflow, and then change a 0 to 1 and a 50 sections to 51 - Oh the problems of this job

Anne
And I've managed to do it , and added a section AND moved it to the right place
You don't need the numbers any more - the cataloguing page adds them, so if you take them out and change 00-preface to just Preface part 1 etc it will be perfect

Thanks!!!

[annise]

I'd have to say personally that when the chapters have a title I tend to leave the actual word Chapter out - so I'd say either "The road to Marseilles" or if I worried that it was a bit confusing when it was section 7 say "V, The road to Marseilles" . I just think it looks better on the catalogue page, and having at last started using an mp3 player with a display, long titles don't fit and I've just finished listening to one that displayed a segment from the front and one from the end and it was very hard to scroll through the book to find something I missed

But it is your call

Anne

[gailtv]

Hi Anne

I will take your sage advice. Nothing is immutable until cataloguing. Do you have a view on the number of characters beyond which a title is unwieldy?

For now I can trim 7 and a space. (CHAPTER ).

I have noticed with the professionally recorded books that they don’t bother with chapter titles. Does Librivox have a policy? (As a listener I like chapter titles because they help me find where I was if I get lost)

Thanks

Gail

[annise]

I just like the look of them in the catalogue page But like everything else in ar LV it depends. Some of them are a sort of precis of the chapter and very very very long. I don't know how most people chose to listen but I suspect it is not on PC screens.
But - in spite of what people believe, LV is about the readers not the listeners, so you can do what seems right to you especially in a solo as long as you stick to the few rules needed for the system to work.

Anne

[gailtv]

Hi -

I have uploaded Chapter II (Section 04) -- but there is no need to PL it out of order (unless you want of course).

https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/queensnecklace_04_dumas_128kb.mp3
8:04.3, 87.7 dB

I recorded this short chapter to see if I had succeeded with my mic trouble shooting. Was substantially successful (90%?). The simple expedient was to close all open windows and reboot before recording. Got rid of the majority of the unexplained pops, cracks, fuzzes, etc. Hopefully the experiment is reproducible.

Cheers

Gail

[craigdav1]

4 PL OK!