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Louis XVI's Bloody Cloth Auctions For $24,400

Agence France Presse | | Posted 04.03.2013 | World
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A bloodstained cloth allegedly belonging to Louis XVI, the French king who was beheaded after the 1789 revolution, on Wednesday fetched a staggering 1...

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Marie Antoinette's Shoes Sell At Auction

Posted 03.28.2012 | Arts
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A pair of white silk mules were recently sold for $57,000 at an auction in Toulon, France. Why so pricey? Marie Antoinette supposedly wore them du...

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France's Mass Strikes Are No Tea Party

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Eric Margolis

Walk down any street in the old part of Paris behind the Louvre, and you see large numbers of unwashed, evil-looking ruffians just waiting for an excuse to riot, loot and burn.

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A French Oval Office: Fit for a King

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Joan Z. Shore

Last week, at Paris' Biennale des Antiquaires, a venerable family of French antique dealers showed how the Oval Office would look if it were in France.

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Louis XVI's Final Testament Recovered

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Louis XVI's final testament written shortly before his execution has been recovered more than two centuries after it disappeared during the French Rev...

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