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The rise in popularity of diamonds as gems seems to have paralleled increasing availability through [[History of Europe|European history]]. In the 13th century, King [[Louis IX of France]] established a law that only the king could own diamonds. However, within a century diamonds were popular gems among the moneyed [[aristocrat]]ic and merchant classes, and by 1477 had begun to be used rarely in [[wedding ring]]s. Diamond wedding rings didn't gain widespread social significance until the De Beers company started marketing the idea through cinema beginning in the 1940s. A number of large diamonds have become historically significant objects, as their inclusion in various sets of [[crown jewels]] and the purchase, sale, and sometimes theft of notable diamonds, have sometimes become politicized.
===Record-holding diamonds===
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