Geneva.
But like many another man, he had a son who could get rid of money
faster than the old man had made it, and the young man brought about
his father's financial ruin. After selling his estates to discharge his
debts, Taver-nier again, at the great age of 84, went in search of
fortune. But he did not reach India, the object of his journey. In
1689, while on the way to Persia, he met his end at Moscow. Amongst
other writings he left a work in two volumes, Les Six Voyages de J. B. Tavermer, which was published in Paris in 1676.
The green brilliant has
a history like a mere postscript to the story of the great blue stone.
But it, too, was of unique colour, though not in the first rank for
size, being only 160 grains (forty carats). It was worn by the King of
Saxony when in Court dress. Brilliant cut, it was set à jour, in a plume to be worn as a hat ornament.
