The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...
The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the ...
A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...
Worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, the 300-carat diamond necklace sold Wednesday for more than twice its ...
How the Affair of the Diamond Necklace changed history—and why 18th-century jewelry remains an eternal holy grail.
Experts say some of the stones in the piece are a match with the original diamonds central to a royal scandal.
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early 1920s where she traveled and painted, depicting the local inhabitants and their culture. In the International Colonial Exhibition of ...
"There is obviously a niche in the market for historical jewels with fabulous provenances," Sotheby's jewelry specialist ...
Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...
Antoinette DelBel joined the WPXI/Channel 11 team as a reporter in May 2023. Before coming to Pittsburgh, Antoinette worked as an anchor, reporter and multimedia journalist at WTKR in Norfolk ...
The idea of such a burial seems first to have come to a chaplain at the Front, the Reverend David Railton (1884-1955), when he noticed in 1916 in a back garden at Armentières, a grave with a rough ...