By the end of 1776, Marie Antoinette had a dress allowance of 150,000 livres, at a time when the price of an an average house in a French town was 200 livres. As she gambled, partied and lavished ...
The house tried to convince the new King Louis XVI to purchase the necklace as a gift for Marie Antoinette, who declined. So the jeweller enlisted the courtier Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy to ...
a natural pearl and diamond pendant A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $36m (£28m) in what Sotheby's auction house says is a ...