It's very unlikely that the real Marie Antoinette callously decreed, "Let them eat cake." There's no historical record of her ...

A dazzling necklace made up of 500 diamonds totaling an astounding 300 carats just sold at an auction in Geneva for $4.8 ...

A display of jewellery that once belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette, (pictured, 1755-1793) ahead of their auction. Source: AAP 一款曾属于法国最后一位皇后——玛丽· ...

when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let them eat cake”. Cake was more expensive than bread, so this response ...

Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat cake” to her starving subjects. Lucy Worsley uncovers the myths and secrets that led the ...

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 $ ...

The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867 The queen's trial in October 1793 provides an opportunity to assess how her garden patronage came to be perceived as dangerous ...

A necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that prompted the downfall of the doomed French queen Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for $4.81m (£3.8m). The Georgian piece contains about ...

Four French consorts - queen Marie-Antoinette and empresses Joséphine Bonaparte, Marie-Louise and Eugénie - constructed their gardens betwixt and between court ritual and personal agency, where they ...

The world’s most famous watch — made for Marie Antoinette — is among the treasures on display.

which helped fuel the revolution and the overthrow of the French monarch,” writes Reuters’ Cecile Mantovani. Marie Antoinette was executed eight years later, following the execution of her ...

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early 1920s where she traveled ... Published in 1929, the portfolio includes a foreword by the French writer Marc Chadoune.