Everyone knows where the story of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI leads. Marie Antoinette Season 2 triggers “the ...

Bill Pallot, an undisputed specialist in 18th-century French furniture, and Bruno Desnoues, an expert cabinetmaker, explained ...

One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 ...

Season 2 takes place ten years into the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, with people inside and outside Versailles ...

Two experienced specialists are going on trial, accused of producing fake antique furniture they then sold for several ...

The Château de Versailles is honouring an overlooked heritage — and the highly symbolic role played by the former royal ...

A decade later, in January 1793, during a significantly different revolution in France itself, Louis XVI was paraded through Paris and beheaded. "Ten days later," notes the Mount Vernon website ...

After the beheading of Louis XVI, revolutionary France sent Edmond Genet as an emissary to the United States. He was not like Benjamin Franklin. Two weeks after Genet arrived in South Carolina on ...

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

Tocqueville answered the question “How bad can it get?” this way: “The most dangerous time for a bad government is usually ...

Renowned French antiques expert has confessed to a multi-million euro fake furniture scam that started out as a joke.

Royal memorabilia of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and little Louis XVII always fetch high prices, as these relics of a bygone ...