GENEVA -- A 19-carat pink diamond that once belonged to King Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and other French rulers is going up for auction for the first time in 130 years, Christie's announced ...

Kelly Horan, the former deputy editor of the Ideas section, is writing a book set in Second Empire France. It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right ...

Paris — French authorities may well manage to track down and arrest the thieves who pulled off an audacious robbery of royal crown jewels from Paris' iconic Louvre museum, but they're unlikely to ...

PARIS — The glittering sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds that once adorned France’s royals could well be gone forever, experts said Tuesday after a brazen, four-minute heist in broad daylight left the ...

When asked what he’d say to King Charles III in a hypothetical one-on-one, NYC Mayor Mamdani says he’d encourage him to return a diamond.