Marie Antoinette was known — and eventually beheaded — for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI, met their untimely ends after squandering their vast fortune ...

A pair of diamond bracelets that were once owned by the doomed French Queen Marie Antoinette have been sold at auction for over $8 million. A Christie's auction house estimate had valued the jewelry ...

A mysterious 18th century necklace made from around 500 diamonds, some of which are believed to have been taken from a piece that contributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette's demise, will go on sale ...

GENEVA (AP) — A large, drop-shaped natural pearl pendant sold for more than $36 million Wednesday at a rare auction of jewelry that once belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette, which Sotheby’s is ...

It’s not every day you get to bid on crown jewels. But you can do just that at Christie’s this fall. Marie Antoinette purchased the bracelets in the spring of 1776 for 250,000 livres (French for ...

A mysterious 18th century necklace made from around 500 diamonds, some of which are believed to have been taken from a piece that contributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette's demise, will go on sale ...

LONDON — Bracelets that once belonged to the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, sold for more than $8 million at auction in Geneva on Tuesday, but a bangle that once belonged to Britain’s Duchess ...

GENEVA (AP) — A large, drop-shaped natural pearl pendant sold for more than $36 million Wednesday at a rare auction of jewelry that once belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette, which Sotheby's is ...

A rare pair of Marie Antoinette’s favorite diamond bracelets that France’s last queen is believed to have smuggled out while imprisoned during the French Revolution sold in Geneva for more than $8 ...

It appears that time does heal all wounds. Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France (1755-1793), was the poster-person of an out-of-touch ruler who lavished luxuries on herself while the people she ...

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