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2. Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia

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   Marie Antoinette (/ ˌ æ n t w ə ˈ n ɛ t, ˌ ɒ̃ t-/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic.

3. Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Wikipedia

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   The jewellers hoped it would be a product that the new Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, would buy and indeed in 1778 the new king, Louis XVI, offered it to his wife as a present, but she refused. [2] The queen initially turned it down stating (if Carlyle is to be believed) "We have more need of seventy-fours [ships] than of necklaces."

4. List of French royal consorts - Wikipedia

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   Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.

5. Mysterious necklace linked to queen's demise set for auction

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   A mysterious 18th century necklace made from around 500 diamonds, some of which are believed to have been taken from a piece that contributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette's demise, will go on ...

6. Diamond Necklace Possibly Linked to Marie Antoinette ... - AOL

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   In 2018, a pearl pendant known as the "Queen Marie Antoinette's Pearl" — this time proven to have belonged to Marie Antoinette — sold for more than $36 million in another Sotheby's auction.

7. Diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette sells for $4.8m - AOL

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   Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 and sent to France to be the child bride of the future King Louis XVI. The last queen of France was guillotined in 1793 at the age of 37, along with ...

8. Flight to Varennes - Wikipedia

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   The route from Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The royal Flight to Varennes (French: Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King ...

9. Diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for ...

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   A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold Wednesday for nearly $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva.