Too much clothing sent Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Yet the first Queen of Excess still stokes our fashion dreams—and ...

American artist Beth Katleman spotted a plastic Marie Antoinette dish scrubber in a friend's San Francisco kitchen years ago ...

Marie Antoinette is a vacuous profligate, buying four new pairs a week while the French are starving through winter and ...

The most expensive natural pearl ever sold at auction is going on display at the V&A museum in London this month for a new exhibition examining Marie Antoinette’s lasting influence on fashion, design, ...

PARIS, France — With the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony over, many of the visuals are making people wonder about a significant chapter in the city's rich history — Marie Antoinette.

MARIE ANTOINETTE—Katharine Anthony—Knopf ($3). Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: “Why don’t ...

Well, shortly after Lady Gaga's performance, the ceremony included a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to the French Revolution, married to Louis XVI. After being found guilty in a trial ...

A mysterious diamond-laden necklace with possible links to a scandal that contributed to the downfall of Marie Antoinette, sold for $4.8 million at an auction in Geneva Wednesday. The 18th century ...

A white shoe made of silk and goat leather that belonged to Marie-Antoinette, France's last queen before the 1789 revolution, sold for 43,750 euros ($51,780) on Sunday, the auctioneers said. The 22.5 ...

The famed shoemaker is sponsoring an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London that traces the legacy and cultural ...

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 sale ...

Too much clothing sent Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Yet the first Queen of Excess still stokes our fashion dreams—and ...