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Queen Mary will wear underwear outside, and she will lose her family to buy diamonds! But she actually bought the bracelet with her own salary.

For more than two centuries, Marie Antoinette has been a mystery to the European royal family.

Austria's most favored little princess, France's most luxurious princess, glamorous, lost her family. Although she was branded as "the disaster of national subjugation", she was still unforgettable after being sent to the guillotine.

We have told many times about her story and her extravagance (I don't remember a friend poking a comment post quickly: the real ancestor of Versailles literature has shot! Her votes can convince all scholars! );

But we don't seem to have talked about her skirt.

As the C-position of the European celebrity circle in the18th century, the godmother of the Paris fashion circle, Queen Mary, a person who can bear the weight, is leading the trend of the times.

Give you some chestnuts:

The enduring past life of petticoats is the trend brought by Queen Mary.

It can be said that Queen Mary is the first person to wear underwear for the first time.

In the18th century, European girls usually wore a loose petticoat under their skirts, but Queen Mary, who was fashionable and loved Rococo style, would not easily dress according to other people's ideas.

She wanted a simpler dress, so she asked the tailor to make a skirt out of petticoat material, white cotton cloth, dense pleats and clear long skirt style. Queen Mary said: Satisfied!

By the way, she also asked the royal painter Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun to draw a picture for her.

As soon as this painting came out, it polarized;

The man was shocked: What? You came out in your pajamas?

Women are like treasures: Wow! It looks good! Buy!

As a result, petticoat dresses became explosive, and girls all over France placed orders.

Of course, Queen Mary has her own ideas about clothes, and she is also a jewelry lover.

She loves pearls and diamonds best. If she doesn't buy them, she will die.

This can be known from those jewelry auctions in recent years.

In 20 18, 10 jewels once belonging to Queen Mary were auctioned by Sotheby's and finally sold for 42.7 million dollars.

Among them, the most expensive is this:

The super-large drop-shaped natural pearl pendant may be worth 2 million US dollars, but it was finally sold for 36 million US dollars, about 250 million RMB!

This premium is unacceptable.

This year1October 9th, 165438, Christie's auction house will auction two diamond bracelets of Queen Mary.

The box sparkled when it was opened.

Marie-Cécile Cisamolo, a jewelry expert at Christie's, praised these two bracelets:

Dear, rich people prepare money, and those who have no money hold personal fields.

The bracelet we are going to auction next is unusual. It * * * consists of 1 12 diamonds, the largest of which is set in the middle. What's even more amazing is that they can be connected together by a buckle and become a necklace!

The bracelet is packed in a blue jewelry box with the name of Queen Mary written on it, which is innocent.

The estimate is between 6.5438+0.8 million and 3.7 million euros, but we think it will be sold at an amazing price.

When the news of Christie's came out, netizens went crazy:

Will there be an exhibition before the auction for the poor to see?

Can I borrow it? I promise to pay it back. I got full marks.

Diamonds last forever, one lasts forever, truth!

My friend, daydreaming is good, but wake up.

Instead of regretting not being able to witness it, let's listen to the story of this bracelet.

1776 In the spring, the third year that Mary became queen of France, she spent 250,000 pounds to order a pair of diamond bracelets from the German jeweler Charles auguste beau Boehmer.

250,000 pounds is not a small sum. According to Count Mercy-Argenteau, the Austrian ambassador to Paris, part of the money came from Queen Mary's own jewelry collection, and the other part was paid by the Queen's annuity given to her by Louis XVI.

Jewelry historian Vincent Meilan said:

This is not nonsense.

I once found a note in the personal file of the king of France, which said that the king paid 29,000 pounds for the diamond bracelet that his wife bought from Boehmer.

No matter who spends a lot of money, this bracelet is really bought.

However, after buying it, Queen Mary didn't wear it very much, but put it in a box.

Queen Mary was imprisoned in dolores until the French Revolution broke out.

17911October, Queen Mary wrote a letter to Count Mercy-Argenteau, a former Austrian ambassador who had resigned and settled in Brussels:

I'll send you a wooden box. Don't open it, put it in a safe place.

At that time, Queen Mary was probably thinking of leaving a way out for his future.

1793 65438+1October 16, Mary went to the guillotine. She remembered saying "I'm sorry" to the executioner, but she didn't have time to arrange her collection properly.

1794 In February, the Austrian emperor Francis II opened the wooden box stored in Brussels. The diamond bracelet is not affected at all, and it is still glowing.

Later, these bracelets were collected by Mary Teresa, the daughter of Queen Mary.

Unfortunately, Teresa didn't leave any heirs. 185 1 After her death, all the collections were divided up by her three nephews and nieces.

After more than a century, this pair of diamond bracelets, which have been sleeping for a long time, finally returned to the world and re-glowed.

Mary's story is doomed to be a tragedy.

but ...

Tragedy does not hinder the appreciation of diamonds.

We will wait and see who will become the new owner.