“Let them eat cake,” said the hard-hearted Marie Antoinette when told that her subjects had no bread. Except she almost certainly did not. The much-despised queen, widely disliked in her own time, was ...

GENEVA (AP) — A pair of diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette, the famed wife of French King Louis XVI who met her fate at the revolutionary guillotine, sold for 7.46 million Swiss ...

Diamond bracelets worth millions that belonged to Queen Marie Antoinette of France could soon be hanging around the wrist of someone who isn't doomed to the guillotine. Christie's is auctioning off ...

Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French revolution, was executed on Oct. 16, 1793, at the Place de la Révolution. This 18th century painting of the ...

This silk and leather shoe that belonged to the late French Queen Marie-Antoinette, goes up for auction on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (Image courtesy of Osenat auction house via Courthouse News) This silk ...

Above: Marie Antoinette scandalously abandoned traditional regalia for newfangled “fashion”—as seen in this fateful 1783 portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of her style influencers. Between the ...

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MARIE ANTOINETTE—Katharine Anthony—Knopf ($3). Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: “Why don’t ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Queen Marie Antoinette is a product of unadulterated extravagance and ...

The UK's first exhibition on France's last - and most controversial Queen - open its doors this weekend, with exhibits ranging from the opulent to the outright macabre, and plenty in between. Marie ...

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