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 ...

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

Posing as the Queen, she wrote several letters to a bishop and former ambassador, Cardinal de Rohan, convincing him to pay for the necklace on Marie Antoinette's behalf. Once the plot was ...

An antique diamond necklace worn at two British coronations, which experts believe is linked to an historic scandal involving ...

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 ...

What he did not know was that the queen's affectionate replies were being written by de Valois-Saint-Rémy. Believing that Marie Antoinette was in love with him, the cardinal was persuaded to ...

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A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, ...

Lucy Boynton will play ‘teenage queen’ Marie Antoinette in an important new biopic about Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Speaking of biopics, it’s just been announced that Boynton has been cast ...

“Marie Antoinette,” created by Tony-award-winning University of Iowa alum David Adjmi, is a modern take on the infamous royal, detailing her macabre journey from exorbitant queen to societal outcast.

The house tried to convince the new King Louis XVI to purchase the necklace as a gift for Marie Antoinette, who declined. So the jeweller enlisted the courtier Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy to ...