Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that damaged the French queen ... Kuta Eugène Delacroix's 1830 oil painting had been covered ...

This attractively illustrated volume describes the succession of courts and monarchies in France 1789–1830, from the revolutionary period to the fall of Charles ... New light is thrown on the nature ...

Lethière (1760–1832) was, until the Clark and the Louvre joined in this show to survey his career, an unremembered history painter and portraitist working during the French Revolution and the ...