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GENEVA (Reuters) - One hundred Bourbon Parma family jewels, including 10 pieces that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette, fetched 53.5 million Swiss francs ($53.2 million), setting a world record for a royal collection, Sotheby’s said on Wednesday.

“The Marie Antoinette provenance is probably second to none. It’s a record for a sale of royal jewels,” David Bennett, chairman of Sotheby’s international jewelry division who conducted the Geneva auction, told reporters. It had exceeded the total for the historic auction of the jewels of the Duchess of Windsor, in the same Swiss city in 1987, he added.

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