The first works to be digitised will range from feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), to the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775).
Mr. Lagerfeld was also one of the first to learn of Ms. Kruger's role as MarieAntoinette in "Farewell, My Queen, " a new film about the Franco-Austrian queen's final three days in the court of Versailles.
Legend has it that when MarieAntoinette was caught at Varennes trying to escape the French Revolution, rebels recognized the queen because of her Houbigant perfume, which only royalty could afford.