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Marie Antoinette’s Jewels For Sale

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama

Tuesday is the 225th anniversary of the beheading of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution, nine months after her husband King Louis XVI. The monarchy had been teetering on the edge of disaster for quite some time. In fact, the royal family had been making preparations to escape France for years.

In March 1791, Marie Antoinette — then France’s capricious and controversial monarch — spent an evening packing up her jewels with her lady-in-waiting. With the French Revolution underway, the queen sent a number of precious gems…

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