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THE FRENCH BLUE.
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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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