How the Affair of the Diamond Necklace changed history—and why 18th-century jewelry remains an eternal holy grail.

An antique diamond necklace worn at two British coronations, which experts believe is linked to an historic scandal involving ...

Today, they're exhibited in the Gem Gallery at the National Museum of Natural History. Twenty-one gray pearls that once belonged to Marie Antoinette were put up for auction by Christie's in 2007.

Most famously known for her lavish lifestyle and disregard for her starving subjects, Marie Antoinette is one of the most vilified women in French history. Is it true that she was selfish and ...

Marie de L'Incarnation obeyed a call from God to convert the natives of New France. (As portrayed by Paule Baillargeon in Canada: A People's History) She was the first Mother Superior of the ...

The star of the auction was Marie Antoinette's Pearl, a natural pearl and diamond pendant A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $ ...

Marie-Antoinette was passionate about dance from a very young age, becoming one of the main exponents of rumberas cinema (Photo: INAH) Although he divorced Orol in 1946, the filmmaker always ...

73.5 x 58.5 cm. (28.9 x 23 in.) ...

wearing “Marie Antoinette’s famous diamond necklace, or at least two ropes of it” at a magnificent ball. “The rest, according to history, was broken up before the French Revolution but I ...