An antiques expert and cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th ...

Thought to be the most expensive chairs made for Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France's Ancien Régime, they were ...

Bill Pallot and Bruno Desnoues have been convicted of forging historic chairs and selling them for large amounts ...

the eldest daughter of King Louis XV. He felt compelled to test them. “I licked the chair and voilà. I could taste the fraud,” he told Vanity Fair. Familiar with the methods used by master ...

According to the case, filed in 2016, 11 chairs and armchairs, presented as commissioned by relatives of Louis XV and Louis XVI, were sold for a total of €3.7m through Parisian galleries and Sot ...

Other items included another set of chairs purported to have sat in one of Marie Antoinette's chambers in Versailles; a separate pair said to have belonged to Madame du Barry, King Louis XV's ...