The Breguet No. 160 - named after the masterful watchmaker who created it for France's last queen - will be exhibited at the Science Museum from next month. Abraham-Louis Breguet was given an ...

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, along with her husband ...

The whole collection was sold for more than £53m. Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess before her marriage to France's King Louis XVI. Her extravagant lifestyle turned her into a hate figure ...

A watch made for Marie Antoinette and described as “the world ... the evolution of science at Versailles and how monarchs Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI encouraged scientific pursuit ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days ... portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that have rendered ...

Whether or not Marie Antoinette truly uttered these ... As the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and wife of French King Louis XVI, Antoinette’s clothing and jewelry were designed by ...

The watch is made up of 823 parts (The Museum for Islamic Art/Science Museum/PA) A watch made for Marie Antoinette and described ... and how monarchs Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI encouraged ...

They then tried to sell the necklace to his successor, King Louis XVI, hoping his queen, Marie Antoinette, would want it, but she declined. However in 1784, a grifter named Jeanne de La Motte came ...