among the characters linked to the history of the diamond, one of the most famous is undoubtedly Tavernier, an intrepid and courageous French merchant of the 1600s, and he was the first European to receive a special permit to visit the Indian diamond mines.
in his diaries he tells of a city famous for its great wealth of stones, Golconda.
from the top of the hill Tavernier could see the workers intent on looking for rough diamonds well supervised by guardians ready for anything.
Tavernier plays an important role in the history of the Hope Diamond
according to legend, during one of his trips to India, Tavernier steals the precious blue diamond set in the eye of the statue of the Hindu god Rama-Sita
the very angry god pours all his anger on the stone and makes it cursed
in fact, after having sold the stone to KING LOUIS XIV, Tavernier dies in poverty, the king wears the crown on which the stone is set and dies of chicken pox.
shortly after the stone is stolen from the royal treasury to be found in 1830 in London. The Hope banker from whom the diamond takes its name, buys it for a large sum of money but a few years later, the entire Hope family dies in little circumstances clear.