The affair had a particularly negative effect on the reputation of Marie Antoinette, the Austrian born wife of Louis ... A ...

By the end of 1776, Marie Antoinette had a dress allowance of 150,000 livres, at a time when the price of an an average house in a French town was 200 livres. As she gambled, partied and ...

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

An antique diamond necklace worn at two British coronations, which experts believe is linked to an historic scandal involving Marie Antoinette ... the Williamson Pink Diamond, and a brooch ...

Extravagant dresses floated across the stage and powdered wigs reached incredible heights, all while peasants starved and the monarchy gorged themselves. “Marie Antoinette,” created by ...

Which is what happened to the jewel at the center of Marie Antoinette’s Affair of the Diamond Necklace, from which these diamonds were possibly sourced. The incident may forever—and somewhat ...

Tobias Kormind, managing director of Europe’s largest online diamond jeweller 77 Diamonds, shared his thoughts on the jewellery's historic allure: "A scandalous link to Marie Antoinette and the ...

Here’s What Reports Suggest Gwyneth Paltrow Gorges On Junk Food And Ice Cream In NYC After Being Called Out For Starvation ...

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 ...

Uma Thurman's dress had over 3,000 white pearls sewn ... The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant. It sold for $32 million in a 2018 auction. But what is it that makes ...

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 ...