`Romance and magic`: Marie Antoinette`s jewels on show before auction
(Artdaily.org)

Marie Antoinette`s dazzling diamonds and pearls, unseen in public for two centuries, went on show in London on Friday before going on sale next month in one of the most important royal jewellery auctions in history. The treasures were secretly whisked out of Paris in 1791 in the aftermath of the French Revolution and have been privately owned by relatives ever since. The collection, held by the Italian royal House of Bourbon-Parma, is being sold by Sotheby`s auction house in Geneva on November 14. On show at their London headquarters, the lots include 10 pieces which belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Paris aged 37 in October 1793. `The romance,