While the story of Marie Antoinette’s “Let them Eat Cake” may be false, she did say…
”Throw strikes, but don’t give ‘em anything good to hit!”
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Marie Antoinette’s pearls up for auction
By Mike Collett-White
September 27, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - A set of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up to $800,000.
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(Christie’s Images/Handout/Reuters)
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Now part of a diamond, ruby and pearl necklace, France’s last queen gave a bag of pearls and diamonds to Lady Sutherland, the British ambassador’s wife, before she fled revolutionary France in 1792, a year before Marie Antoinette’s death.
“Lady Sutherland was wife of the ambassador and friends with the queen, and they had children of the same age,” said Raymond Sancroft-Baker, senior director of Christie’s jewelry in London.
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