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🇫🇷💟🇺🇸 Day 10: Paris, Louvre Museum.

💎🇫🇷💎The French Crown Jewels -Apollo Gallery, Louvre. The Royal & Imperial Crowns and jewelry are always a mandatory stop on every visit to Louvre Museum for me. Seen here is the glittering diamond encrusted Coronation Crown of King Louis XV, the only extant diadem of the Kings of France. Along with several of the largest diamonds of the royal collection are the necklaces, crowns and tiaras of Empress Josephine. Marie-Louise & Eugenie. Missing this year from the case was Coronation Crown of the last French Empress Eugenie, perhaps in restoration? 💎🇫🇷💎

French Crown Jewels, the Coronation Crown of King Louis XV bejeweled with hundreds of diamonds and other precious gems from the royal collection. This is the only surviving French Royal Crown from the Ancien-Regime (before the French Revolution). Now in the Apollo Gallery in Louvre Museum, Paris.

King Charles X of France in Coronation Robes with his brilliant Coronation Crown and regalia. He followed his brothers Kings Louis XVI & Louis XVIII and was the last King of the direct House of Bourbon. He was succeeded by his Bourbon cousin Louis-Phillipe of the House of Orleans, a cadet branch of the Royal Family. The royal blue version of this painting was actually the copy, the ruby red toned or Burgundy colored coronation robes is the original.

Order of the Holy Spirit badge made of diamonds and emeralds with its original leather case.

On October 19th, 1851, Marie Thérèse of France–the only child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to survive the revolution–died at the age of 72.

She remained active in her charity work, busy with guests, and was always hospitable to anyone who showed respect to the cause of the legitimists. Madame de La Ferronnays described Marie Therese as having a heart that ‘was a treasure of indulgence’. Indeed, Marie Therese’s own journal of her time in the Temple Prison has displayed no bitterness despite all that she had suffered. She could be fun and enjoyed lighthearted moments with family and friends, where she displayed the side of her personality that, as a child, her mother had named ‘Mousseline’.

What they took:

They dropped this ↓ and damaged it:

Sevres vases now on display at Versailles.