Just a minute - Nicholas Parsons takes a closer look at some antique Breguet watches The last queen of France, Marie ...

The watch, which wasn't finished in time to adorn the wrist of Marie Antoinette, has been described as the “Holy Grail” of ...

An impressively severe second feature by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, this is a brisk rejoinder to past cinematic portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that have rendered even their ...

Marie Antoinette was known - and eventually beheaded - for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI met their untimely ends after squandering their vast ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake ... was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution ...

Louis died and was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI, whose wife, Marie Antoinette, made no secret of her disdain for Madame du Barry—it wasn’t long before grandpa’s mistress was banished ...

A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace ...

The watch is made up of 823 parts (The Museum for Islamic Art/Science Museum/PA) A watch made for Marie ... Louis Breguet was commissioned with an unlimited budget to craft the timepiece for ...

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

A watch made for Marie Antoinette and ... In 1783, Abraham-Louis Breguet was commissioned with an unlimited budget to craft the timepiece for Antoinette, but it was completed in 1827 due to ...