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

An impressively severe second feature by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, this is a brisk rejoinder to past cinematic portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that have rendered even their ...

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 cake ... was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution ...

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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 ...

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

Even when he played Louis XVI in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, the most striking thing about seeing him in his cousin’s ...

Upon her arrival in France, Maria assumed the Gallic version of her name: Marie Antoinette. When his grandfather Louis XV died in 1774, Louis XVI ascended the throne, making Marie Antoinette the Queen ...

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 ...