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The Sancy Blood Diamond - Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems (Hardcover)
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The Sancy Blood Diamond - Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems (Hardcover)
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The fascinating six-hundred-year history of one of the world's most
coveted gems and the royal feuds, intrigues, and betrayals it
engendered
The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth
century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond-and the
most concentrated and secure form of wealth-in all of Christendom.
Alternately believed to impart invincibility to its wearer and to
bring ruin to any who owned it, the Sancy cast a seemingly mystical
spell over everyone from the king of Portugal to Henry III of
France to England's Elizabeth I to Napoleon Bonaparte and Queen
Maria Luisa of Spain.
The riveting account of one of the most hotly pursued gems in
history, The Sancy Blood Diamond follows its six-century journey
from the diamond mines of Golconda to where it now modestly resides
at the Louvre, among the remnants of the French crown jewels. In a
colorful, fast-paced narrative, historian Susan Ronald describes
the often violent passions the Sancy engendered among many of the
giants of European history. She also describes the pivotal roles it
played on the chessboard of European geopolitics, and how it was
used to raise armies, settle national debts, and enhance its
owners' power and prestige.
Working from primary sources, Ronald solves, once and for all, the
mystery of the Sancy's disappearances in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and she explores the legend of the Sancy
curse, which arose after the violent deaths of Burgundy's Charles
the Bold, England's Charles I, France's Louis XVI, and other
ill-fated owners.
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