Marie Antoinette's

Château Fontainebleau is the only royal and imperial château to have been continuously inhabited for seven centuries. Photo via Musee ch...

"Spectacular old mine cut diamond and sapphire oversized feather brooch from Fred Leighton -- the one that fashion baron, André Leo...

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A tapestry panel hangs at Bantry House. Image via Bantry House . A set of four tapestries was made for Louis XV on the occasion of the ...

Louis XVI removed two rings before he was executed 21 January 1793. Each ring he had always worn, one he wore ever since his wedding to...

On Louis XVI "The King surprised me...

When the Louvre sends art work to you, you go visit it!  The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has just opened their latest exhibition:...

Here is an interesting account from 1793 regarding the wedding of Marie Antoinette and Louis Auguste, in an effort to make out the daup...

One year ago I woke up way too early to sip champagne and watch Kate and William's Royal Wedding. As inspiring as it was, and yes I...

One of the most tragic figures of the 18th century was the young French queen Marie Antoinette, who only lived to be 37 year...

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Fabre d'Eglantine.  Oil on canvas, around 1775-94. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France This week's fashi...

Glokeur de Surchamps, The Fleur de France. Genealogical tree with thirteen miniature portraits. Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid. Pho...

Giovannia Battista Piranesi, Side Table . Gilt oak, lime wood, marble, 1768. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. As times changed at t...

 "His forehead was large and his features strongly marked, he had rather a down cast, though a steady, look. His eyes were blue an...

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Portrait de Adélaïde de France . Pastel on paper, 1787. Palace of Versailles.  Jean-Marc Nattier, Madame Vi...

Film still from Marie Antoinette (2006). Marie Antoinette's wedding ceremony took place at one in the afternoon, to Louis August...

"Your wife, my dear Dauphin, has just parted from me. She was the delight of my life, and I hope that she will be the joy of yours. In ...

The duchesse de Polignac was popular for her unpopularity during the French Revolution.  The name Polignac became a word interchangeable wi...

Upon Louis XV's death, a stunned Marie Antoinette and now Louis XVI stood in their inner apartments of Versailles.  Famously, they asked...

Boucher, François and Maurice Jacques. Aurora and Cephalus , 1775-76. Wool and silk tapestry, Hofburg Palace, Austria. Boucher worked with ...