Le Collier de la Reine

Le Collier de la Reine (The Queen’s Necklace) is a strange name for a restaurant, but it can easily be explained by the fact that the Countess de la Motte supposedly lived at the same address as the restaurant. She was the scammer behind the Affair of the Queen’s Necklace – which helped contribute to the unpopularity of Marie-Antoinette in 1785, four years before the French Revolution, even though the queen had been scammed and was blameless.