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Ch. 5: French Blue or Tavernier Blue Diamond

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THE FRENCH BLUE.
T HE diamond variously known as the "French Blue," or the "Tavernier Blue," has had a singular destiny.
Smaller by nearly eighty carats than the Orloff, and younger by three centuries than the Koh-i-nur, it is in some ways as remarkable as either of those famous stones. So far as is known, it was never the worshiped orb of an idol, nor the hardly-less worshiped bauble of an Eastern prince. Wars were not waged for it, nor were murders committed to obtain its possession. Indeed, its quaint commercial dibut into history is somewhat tame, as is also its uneventful lite of a century and a half in the treasure-chambers of the Crown of France. In fact, were it not for its strange color, its strange 111
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