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Smuggled Out of France During a Bloody Revolution, Marie Antoinette’s Shimmering Pink Diamond Is Heading to Auction
On the night of June 20, 1791, as the French Revolution raged in Paris, the French royal family donned disguises and started ...
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Women of the French Revolution can be feisty, funny — and not
Imagine, it’s the French Revolution and the outspoken 18th century feminist writer Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday who ...
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A Humble Servant, Watching As The Throne Totters
In 1995's A Single Girl, probably his best known film in the U.S., Benoit Jacquot tracks a young chambermaid through one workday as she ponders a big decision. The French writer-director's smart ...