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 ...

The piece was at the centre of a scandal in the 1780s known as the 'Diamond Necklace Affair' in which a hard-up noblewoman ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake ... revolt from the French commoners against the monarchy, but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start.

On June 20, 1791, Louis and his family, including his despised Austrian queen, Marie-Antoinette ... "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this ...

Marie Antoinette will depict the life of the ... attention from newspapers and the general public. By the time the French revolution came around, Antoinette was detested by many of the French ...

The star of the auction was Marie Antoinette's Pearl, a natural pearl and diamond pendant A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $ ...

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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 ...