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« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2007, 01:55:39 pm »








The legend of the Hope Diamond began in 1642, and it weighted about 112 carats. A French diamond merchant named Jean Tavernier found the diamond in India. Tavernier took the diamond out of India to show it for Louis XIV, the King in 1668, after returning from his sixth trip to India. It was first cut Indian style, and weighed 112.50 carats. However, Tavernier was killed by wild dogs during the another trip on business to India.

Five years after Louis XIV bought it, he had the royal goldsmith cut it into 67 carats, the shape of a heart. The dark blue diamond was called "the Royal French Blue" or "Blue Diamond of the Crown". In 1774 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette inherited the French Blue and wore it, as it was popularly known.

When the revolution broke out the heart cut blue diamond while under guard in the French Treasure House -- Grade Meuble, the Heart Cut Blue Diamond was stolen together with all of the French Crown Jewels. Some of the gems taken in this robbery were recovered, but not the Heart Cut Blue Diamond.

 The Heart Cut Blue Diamond was believed to be sold in Spain and there cut into three smaller stones. The Goya portrait of Queen Marie Louisa painted in 1799 shows her wearing a deep blue diamond cut into 44.5 carats of rounded oval. It is said that the stolen Royal French Blue was recut to its present size by Wilhelm Fals, a young Dutch diamond cutter. Fales is said to have died of grief after his son, Hendrick stole the gem from him. Hendrick, in turn, committed suicide.

Evidence suggests that the Hope Diamond was acquired in the early 1800s by King George IV of England, and likely sold at his death in 1830 to help pay off his debts.
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