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

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

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

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

Composed of approximately 300 carats of old mine-cut diamonds, the historic piece was once worn during royal coronations and ...

The scandal tarnished the reputation of Marie Antoinette, who was unjustly accused of having an immoral relationship with a ...

Photo: Reuters 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 ...

A necklace with jewels linked to the most famous scandal of Marie Antoinette's tragic reign surpassed its estimate to sell ...

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.