Tavernier, JB (English spelling)

Japanese: Tavernier,J.B.(英語表記)TavernierJB
Tavernier, JB (English spelling)

...The Hope (about 44 carats), purchased by Louis XIV in the 17th century, was a blue diamond known as a stone of bad luck. Many people who wore it were executed, such as Madame de Montespan and Marie Antoinette, and many people suffered unfortunate deaths and family misfortunes, such as the banker Hope family who bought it later. According to legend, it was cursed by a French diamond merchant, J.B. Tavernier (1605-89), who stole it from the eye of a statue of Ramashita in a temple in India around 1668. The Cullinan, the world's largest diamond, from South Africa, is said to have had a rough stone of 3,106 carats, and is now divided into several pieces and displayed in the crowns and sceptres of the British royal family.

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Japanese:

…また17世紀にルイ14世が買い取った〈ホープHope〉(約44カラット)はブルー・ダイヤモンドで,凶運の石として知られ,それを着用したモンテスパン夫人やマリー・アントアネットのように刑死したり,後年それを買い入れた銀行家ホープ家のように不慮の死や家庭の不幸に見舞われる者が続出した。伝説によれば,フランスのダイヤ商人タベルニエJ.B.Tavernier(1605‐89)が1668年ころインドの寺院でラーマーシーターの神像の目からそれを盗み取ったためのたたりだという。なお世界最大のダイヤモンドといわれる南ア産の〈カリナンCullinan〉は原石が3106カラットあったといわれ,現在は数個に分割されてイギリス王室の王冠や笏に飾られている。…

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