Marie Antoinette waits for her beheading.

Soldiers ready Marie Antoinette for the guillotine.

Soldiers and a henchman ready Marine Antoinette for the guillotine.

Villagers chant and taunt as Marie Antoinette walks to the guillotine.

Soldiers ready Marie Antoinette for the guillotine.

Villagers chant as Marie Antoinette walks to her beheading.

Marie Antoinette waits for the guillotine to fall.

Marie Antoinette awaits her beheading.

A guillotine falls on Marie Antoinette.

Marie Antoinette waits to be beheaded.

French patriots wait for the beheading of Marie Antoinette.

Milena Canonero (center), winner Best Costume Design for �Marie Antoinette� at the 2007 Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 25, 2007. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)

Milena Canonero (center), winner Best Costume Design for �Marie Antoinette� at the 2007 Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 25, 2007. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)

Villagers chant as French soldiers stand guard.

French soldiers stand guard at a guillotine.

A guillotine falls.

With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Two diamond bracelets that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and imbued with her "glamour, glory and drama" according to Christie's auction house, are sold for more than $8 million in Geneva (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Two bracelets that belonged to the French queen Marie-Antoinette, both covered with more than a hundred diamonds, will be put up for public auction for the first time on November 9 by Christie's in Geneva (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Sotheby's will auction a jewelry collection that once belonged to the French queen, Marie Antoinette.

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Sotheby's is to auction a jewelry collection that once belonged to the French queen, Marie Antoinette.

Feathers have adorned the most glamorous of fashionistas throughout history from Marie Antoinette to Lady Gaga and one Italian octogenarian continues to fuel the fantasy (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)