The blue diamond
The jewel that you can admire in the image is the famous blue diamond, a beautiful precious stone but accompanied by a very bad reputation.
In fact, an interminable series of misfortunes is linked to it.
Originally, the blue diamond adorned the forehead of a Buddha Indian , until an adventurer stole it and took it to France.
The god cast a powerful curse on it and the tragedies began.
Fouquet he wore it to a party in the presence of the Sun King:he immediately fell out of favor and died shortly after in prison.
Madame De Montespan , courtesan of Louis XIV , she too fell from grace and spent the last years of her life in continuous and severe penance.
At one point the wonderful diamond fell into the hands of Queen Marie Antoinette , that during the French Revolution, after unspeakable suffering, she climbed the steps of the gallows.
Eventually the gem passed to the Romanovs, the Russian rulers until the outbreak of the Bolshevik revolution:the entire family of the Tsar was slain.
Today the blue diamond is kept at the Smithsonian Institute of Washington , where it is protected by a transparent case equipped with the most sophisticated safety mechanisms.
The jewel is also known as Hope diamond and French blue ( Photo from: gioielloitaliano.net).