The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...

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

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

In Marie Antoinette, David Adjmi translates the gilded life of 18th century French aristocracy into the language of today’s entitled, cocooned ultra-rich. His play is grounded in history but is not a ...

Sotheby's said this month that some of the diamonds in the piece may have come from a necklace that helped precipitate the ...

"The French public believed that the queen had accepted the necklace from the cardinal, and this blow to her already bad reputation greatly contributed to the Revolution." Queen Marie Antoinette ...

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.

Perhaps most memorably, the young queen was the subject of Sofia Cappola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, which tracked her journey from young girl to French queen. And now, Marie Antoinette is set ...

From Austrian princess to ill-fated last queen ... Marie Antoinette's life journey is captured in this meticulously researched documentary about the woman who is considered to have triggered the ...

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.

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...