U.S. has Sun King’s stolen gem, say French experts

Updated Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:30 am TWN, AFP

U.S. has Sun King’s stolen gem, say French experts

PARIS -- French experts said on Tuesday they had proof that the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit in Washington’s Smithsonian Institution, is a legendary gem once owned by King Louis XIV that was looted in the French Revolution.

New evidence unearthed in France’s National Museum of Natural History shows beyond reasonable doubt that the Hope Diamond is the same steely-blue stone once sported by the Sun King.

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