[VIDEO] Pearl Merchants : The Forgotten History of a Trade Between The Gulf and France

Pearl Merchants : the forgotten history of a trade between the Gulf and France

Who remembers that Paris was the world capital of the natural pearl trade? Traveling from “the pearl coast”, as the Gulf countries were previously called, to France, this conversation looks back on half a century of shared history, from the 1900s until World War II.

Speakers : Olivier Segura, Gemologist and Scientific Director at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts & Léonard Pouy, Art Historian PhD and Professor at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts