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

The script, by the director with Filippo Gravino, traces Louis and Marie ... of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days ...

Tobias Kormind, managing director of Europe’s largest online diamond jeweller 77 Diamonds, shared his thoughts on the ...

Marie Antoinette was known - and eventually beheaded - for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI met their untimely ends after squandering their vast ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat ... but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try ...

The whole collection was sold for more than £53m. Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess before her marriage to France's King Louis XVI. Her extravagant lifestyle turned her into a hate figure ...

While King Louis XVI remained the nominal head of state ... including his despised Austrian queen, Marie-Antoinette, attempted to flee France and were captured. The newly created Legislative ...

A diamond necklace which was linked to a scandal which ruined Marie Antoinette's reputation is set to fetch £2.1million at an auction. The antique necklace, which was also worn at the coronations ...

The most disastrous fireworks-related tragedy occurred during a marriage celebration of King Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette on May 16, 1770. After the fireworks show, a stampede occurred as people ...

Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 and sent to France to be the child bride of the future King Louis XVI. She died on the guillotine in 1793, a few months after her husband, having ...

Anti-clerical radicals attacked the facade, removing biblical statues and decapitating them in the cathedral's square, in ...

Marie Antoinette, the titular main character and the play’s namesake was an Austrian-born royal married to King Louis XVI of France. Most famously known for her lavish lifestyle and disregard for her ...