Regent Diamond
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The Regent Diamond is a 140.64-carat diamond owned by the French state and on display in the Louvre, worth US$60,000,000 as of 2025. Mined in India and cut in London, it was purchased by the regent of
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Detail of Napoleon's portrait with sword
Coronation Portrait of Charles X by François Gérard, 1825. Note the Regent Diamond set in the Fleur-de-lis at the top of the crown at left.
Thomas Pitt
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Thomas Pitt was a British merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George from 1698 to 1709. Born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, he eventually went to the I
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…captain killed the slave and sold the diamond to the eminent Indian diamond merchant Jamchand. In a letter to his London agent dated 6 November 1701, Thomas Pitt, the Governor of Fort St. George, writes: "... This accompanies the model of a Stone I have lately seene; it weighs Mang. 303 and carrtts 426. It is…
Kneller Portraitof Pitt
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