Vintage Hand-Crank Music Box – Marie Antoinette, Château de Versailles

Marie Antoinette Hand-Crank Music Box

A charming miniature hand-crank music box from the official collection of the Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Decorated with romantic floral prints and period fashion engravings depicting Queen Marie Antoinette and her court ladies in full 18th-century dress.

• Melody: "Il pleut bergère" — lyrics by Philippe Fabre d'Eglantine, music by Victor Simon, 1780
• Historical note: the song was sung at the founding of the National Guard after the storming of the Bastille; its author is said to have hummed it on his way to the scaffold
• Decoration: fashion engravings from the Versailles collection (©RMN)
• Mechanism: hand-crank metal music movement on wooden base
• Comes in original illustrated box
• Dimensions - 6 cm x 4.5 cm x 3 cm
• Excellent vintage condition

A truly unique collector's piece — a tiny fragment of French royal history that fits in the palm of your hand.