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• Book Title: The Sancy Blood Diamond:Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems



• Author: Susan Ronald



• ISBN-10: 0471436518



• ISBN-13: 978-0471436515



• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition



• Publication Date: November 1, 2004



• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Description:

  The Sancy Diamond first came to Europe from India in the fourteenth century, and until 1661 it was the largest white diamond-and the mainly concentrated and secure form of wealth-in all of Christendom. Alternately supposed to impart invincibility to its wearer and to bring ruin to any who owned it, the Sancy cast a seemingly mystical spell over everybody from the king of Portugal to Henry III of France to England's Elizabeth I to Napoleon Bonaparte and Queen Maria Luisa of Spain.