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

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

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

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

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

Schadenfreude (the pleasure one derives from another's suffering) is an uncanny sentiment. When intertwined with mass ...

and became the venue where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette got married. After Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were forced out of the chateau during the French Revolution, the government left ...

Tavernier came from a Protestant family of engravers and geographers based in Paris. Drawn to the East, he is best known for ...

As the author of the standard biography of her husband, Louis XVI, John Hardman has every qualification for turning his attention to Marie Antoinette. Of course, that alone does not guarantee that ...

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is being sold in Geneva next week. The Georgian-era ...