A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...

A necklace thought to contain diamonds from an earlier necklace which embroiled Marie Antoinette in scandal has found success ...

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

The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.

This is a bronze, French 2 sols coin from 1792, which was the last year of Louis XVI's reign in France. King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine in January 1793 after being founf guilty of ...

Desan, Suzanne 2020. Théroigne de Méricourt, Gender, and International Politics in Revolutionary Europe. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, Issue. 2, p. 274.

Experts say some of the stones in the piece are a match with the original diamonds central to a royal scandal.