Posted by TMN Raugavine on March 17, 2013, 8:46 am
Do any of the royal collections contain jewelry or objects of art that once belonged to the last misstress of Louis XVth of France? I just finished reading "Madame du Barry, The Wages of Beauty". In the end of the book, she tried to bargain her way to a stay of execution by enumerating all her jewels she had buried in the grounds of of her chateau,Louveciennes.
"bags of gold coins, piles of assignats, diamond, ruby and emerald rings, miniatures framed in diamonds, golden pencil boxes, enamelled clocks; the pink perarls she had worn when Cosway (Richard, a painter) painted her in London; the last diamons given her by Brissac (her last lover); a king's ransom waiting to be collected from the lily ponds and deer park as far as the hydraulic machine of Marly."
Not to mention the fabulous trove stolen and recovered to be held in a bank in London England.
on March 17, 2013, 8:46 am