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

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, ...

A subsequent trial found the queen blameless, yet did little to alleviate her growing notoriety for extravagance which helped fuel the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette's beheading.

Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, was alleged to have had participated in a plot to defraud the Crown's jewelers. The post Stunning jewel that helped spark French Revolution to sell for ...

the French Revolution – Napoleon as its beneficiary, Marie Antoinette as its victim. After so many books and so much polemic about the queen and her fate, is there anything more to say? The answer, as ...

As a gift, Kourtney sent him a cake with the words ""Lemme Eat Cake" written on it. This is a nod to the well-known quote from the French Queen Marie Antoinette, "let them eat cake." In the 18th ...

The new word was used to describe a new phenomenon – what the French writer Nicolas Chamfort ... also be all-consuming and provoke hostility, as Marie Antoinette, among others, learned to her cost.

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early ... Published in 1929, the portfolio includes a foreword by the French writer Marc Chadoune.

Buckingham Palace has given us an exciting update on Queen Camilla after it was announced ... Iris Goldsztajn is a celebrity and royal news writer for Marie Claire. As a London-based freelance ...

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