Here are five things to know about the eight priceless pieces of jewellery stolen in an audacious heist from the Louvre ...
Other items taken included a bow brooch that once belonged to Gilded Age socialite Caroline Astor and the reliquary brooch of ...
SAINTE-BEUVE has said: “There are two ‘ ages ’ of Louis XIV. : the one, noble, majestic, magnificent, respectable, conventional to stiffness, decorous to solemnity, represented by the king in person, ...
In the middle of the 17th century, forbidden lovers Queen Anne of Austria, the widow of King Louis XIII, and her Prime Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, face the opposition of a revengeful and power-seeking ...
Catalogue. Pictures Exhibited by the Athenaeum: Pictures and Engravings bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts by the Hon. Charles Sumner, and of works of art lately added to the collections of the ...
OF Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, who was considered to be the most beautiful woman of her time in Europe, and whose lovers were innumerable, Sainte-Beuve thus speaks : “In spite of all that ...