マリー・アントワネットのシルク靴、５４０万円で落札

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】1789年のフランス革命前の最後の王妃マリー・アントワネットが所有していたシルクとヤギ皮製の白い靴が15日、競売に掛けられ、4万3750ユーロ（約540万円）で落札された。競売会社が明らかにした。（写真は仏ベルサイユで競売に掛けられた王妃マリー・アントワネットの白い靴。競売会社オズナ提供）
　落札されたのは２２．５センチのヒール付き靴で、リボンの飾りが４つ付いている。競売を実施したオズナによると、シルクにわずかな劣化が見られる以外は良好な状態だという。競売は、かつて宮廷が置かれていたパリ西部のベルサイユで行われた。
　同社によると、靴には世界各国のコレクターが強い関心を示し、価格は予想落札価格の８０００～１万ユーロ（約１００万～１２０万円）をすぐに突破。靴は匿名の参加者により落札された。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/11/16-12:24）

A white shoe made of silk and goat leather that belonged to Marie-Antoinette, France's last queen before the 1789 revolution, sold for 43,750 euros ($51,780) on Sunday, the auctioneers said.
The 22.5 centimetre-long (8.8-inch), heeled shoe, roughly equivalent to a European size 36, is adorned with four ribbons and in good condition, apart from slight wearing of the silk, the Osenat auction house said.
With international collectors showing strong interest, Osenat said the price quickly rose from the reserve of 8,000 to 10,000 euros ($9,450 to $11,800) and was snapped up by an unidentified buyer.
In the turmoil of the French Revolution the shoe ended up in the hands of Marie-Emilie Leschevin, a close friend of the queen's head chambermaid.
Her family held on to it for generations before it came to auction 227 years after her death.
Marie-Antoinette -- born an Austrian archduchess -- was the wife of Louis XVI.
Let them eat cake, she is often said to have responded when told that peasants were starving because there was no bread.
The royal couple was executed by guillotine during the Terror in 1793 but France continues to be fascinated by Marie-Antoinette.
Last year an exhibition at the Conciergerie, the former Paris prison where she was incarcerated before execution, retraced changes in the representation of the country's last queen through paintings, mangas, films and even Barbie dolls.