The rare jewels of Marie-Antoinette are exposed before the auction | News from the world



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Marie-Antoinette's dazzling jewelry collection, unseen for 200 years, was on display in London on Friday before being on sale next month as part of a rare auction of such treasures. The collection, owned by the historic Italian Royal House of Bourbon-Parma, is sold by Sotheby's auction house in Geneva on November 14th.

Presented at their headquarters in London, the lots include 10 jewels that belonged to Marie Antoinette, last queen of France before the French Revolution.

The sale also contains jewelry by Charles X, the last king of France, including a diamond tiara; jewelery of the empress Maria Theresa of Austria, mother of Marie Antoinette, and the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, died in 1916.



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