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a group of ladies he particularly wished to honor, he shook himself,
and a few of the diamonds fell off. This senseless extravagance was
resorted to in rivalry of the Duke of Chev-reuse, the most profuse of
the French nobles, who at the ceremony of the betrothal had appeared
in a suit embroidered with pearls and diamonds, it being contrary to a
sumptuary law to embroider with gold or silver.
Charles
did not long enjoy the tranquil possession of his diamonds. By the
time he and Henrietta had ceased to quarrel he and his Parliament had
begun to do so. The Queen pledged a large number of the crown jewels in
Holland in order to raise funds for her husband, but these consisted
mostly of pearls and did not include either the Sanci or the Portugal
whose connection with the Crown of England was not yet to be severed.
In 1669 the court jeweler of France, Robert de Berquen, whose writings have already been alluded to, says:
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