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Ch. 1: The Famous Regent Diamond

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THE REGENT.                                 25
We lose sight of the Regent in the black gloom that hangs over the Reign of Terror. There is however a persistent tradition, impos­sible now either to prove or disprove, that on the occasion of the marriage of Napoleon Bona­parte with Josephine Beauharnais in 1796 the former wore a most superb diamond in his sword hilt. Could this perchance have been the Regent? It is certainly difficult to imagine how Napoleon could have become possessed of the Regent at this date. Yet it is also difficult to imagine how the young man who was then an unknown and a poor general without an army although full of high expectations, could have become the owner of any diamond of such splendor as to attract the attention of at least two contemporary historians. It is just possible it may have been the peerless Regent already shedding its rays upon the blade of that sword destined to flash through Europe and to leave behind it so bloody a trail.
However this may be, it is certainly a fact
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