The Blue Hope Diamond, also known as Blue of France or Tavernier Blue, of 45.52carat, Vs1 purity, is of Indian origin, is cut into pillow and its color is called "blue envy".
It has a left fame. The first owner, the French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier seems that stole it from an Indian statue, when it was still rough and weighed 112 carats, so he did
bankruptcy and died, but now eighty years old. The Blue Hope then passed to the king of France Louis XIV, who He had it cut, reduced to 67.5 carats, and so it came to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette,
who ended up at the gallows. Legend has it that a subsequent owner, a jeweler, died of a heart attack when the diamond was stolen from him and that his son, guilty of the theft, committed suicide in the sense
of guilt. The stone arrived in London, where it was reduced to 45.52 carats and sold to the English banker Hope, who soon after separated from his wife and then decided to get rid of the diamond, thinking that it would bring evil. After several steps, today is the stone guarded and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.
