Crafted circa 1776 and having spent time on the necks of British aristocracy, the 300-carat dazzler is now set to be ...

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 ...

we are greeted by staff members dressed as 18th-century servants. We have been granted temporary membership of today’s 0.1 per cent so as to relive the lives of the 18th-century 0.1 per cent. Call it ...

The script, by the director with Filippo Gravino, traces Louis and Marie Antoinette's plummeting status ... democracy that are so alien to the former king as to be incomprehensible.

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat ... but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try ...

The union of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI was meant to bring peace and prosperity to both France and Austria ... It's widely believed that Marie Antoinette's issues with her marriage may have ...

Le Déluge, a new film directed by Gianluca Jodice, stars Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent as Louis XVI and ...

Le Déluge, a new film directed by Gianluca Jodice, stars Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent as Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, during their imprisonment at the Conciergerie. Here, we discover the ...

Extravagant dresses floated across the stage and powdered wigs reached incredible heights, all while peasants starved and the ...

eldest grandson of King Louis XV of France. In anxiety over some childishness still lingering in Marie-Antoinette, Empress Maria Theresa sends over to France her confidant, Count of Mercy ...

Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 and sent to France to be the child bride of the future King Louis XVI. She died on the guillotine in 1793, a few months after her husband, having ...