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

Marie Antoinette's expenditures naturally extended to accessories, including jewelry. Ahead, see where the ill-fated royal's precious gems ended up after the French Revolution. In 1772 ...

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

A subsequent trial found the queen blameless, yet did little to alleviate her growing notoriety for extravagance which helped ...

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 ...

Complete with beautiful production and a stellar cast, “Marie Antoinette” aims to showcase Marie’s journey leading up to and through the French Revolution. To quite literally set the stage, the ...

A diamond necklace which was linked to a scandal which ruined Marie Antoinette's reputation ... the start of the French Revolution and eventually led to the execution of the queen, right.

After Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced out of the chateau during the French Revolution, the government left, and Versailles was practically abandoned. It was eventually brought back to ...

Marie Antoinette is as renowned today for her life of luxury as she was when she reigned as the Queen of France over 200 years ago. But her unrestrained opulence marked a stark contrast between 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.