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 ...

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

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

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

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early 1920s where she traveled and painted, depicting the local inhabitants and their culture. In the International Colonial Exhibition of ...

Sotheby's will auction off an extraordinary piece of history: A 300-carat diamond necklace dating back to 1776, a piece so dazzling that it's been tied to the downfall of Marie Antoinette.

Most famously known for her lavish lifestyle and disregard for her starving subjects, Marie Antoinette is one of the most vilified women in French history. Is it true that she was selfish and ...

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 ...

Diamond Necklace Possibly Linked to Marie Antoinette's Demise up for Auction By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse GENEVA (Reuters) - A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a ...