Found me the head of Henri IV!

It seems the French are not so reluctant to examine old remains:

http://tinyurl.com/239v482

They have positively identified the head of King Henri IV, thought to have been destroyed, along with a lot of other royal remains, during the French Revolution.

Katy

Seems we Brits will have to form a republic to get anything done. :-)

Paul Neville.



--- In , "oregon_katy" <oregon_katy@...> wrote:
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> It seems the French are not so reluctant to examine old remains:
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> http://tinyurl.com/239v482
>
> They have positively identified the head of King Henri IV, thought to have been destroyed, along with a lot of other royal remains, during the French Revolution.
>
> Katy
>

I will have to post this story on "Thermidor" (a Yahoo forum for modern French history).

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It seems the French are not so reluctant to examine old remains:

http://tinyurl.com/239v482

They have positively identified the head of King Henri IV, thought to have been destroyed, along with a lot of other royal remains, during the French Revolution.

Katy

I should add that one of the Yahoo commenters said "..... it's not as if they used a rusty knife like al Qaeda ......." - Henri de Navarre died in 1610 and being beheaded in 1793 was totally painless.

CRINGEWORTHY!

--- In , "oregon_katy" <oregon_katy@...> wrote:
>
> It seems the French are not so reluctant to examine old remains:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/239v482
>
> They have positively identified the head of King Henri IV, thought to have been destroyed, along with a lot of other royal remains, during the French Revolution.
>
> Katy
>