2010年12月15日星期三

Embalmed head of France's King Henri IV found!

"It will be a beautiful ceremony," he told Reuters.
Jacques Perot, director of the Societe Henri IV in France,Ray Ban Sunglasses Sale said the head will be buried next year in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

He was assassinated in Paris at the age of 57 by Catholic fanatic Francois Ravaillac.
In 1598, nine years after ascending the throne, he enacted the Edict of Nantes which guaranteed religious liberties to Protestants and brought to a close over 30 years of fighting between French Protestants and Catholics.
Henri IV was one of the most popular French kings, known as "the good King Henry" and as "the green gallant," because of his attractiveness to women.
In addition, a digital facial reconstruction of the skull was fully consistent with all known representations of the king and the plaster mold of his face made just after his death.
Radiocarbon dating also gave a date of between 1450 and 1650, Ray Ban Sunglasses"nicely bracketing the year of his death," the report said.
Charlier said three "cutting wounds" were also visible, corresponding to the separation of the head from the body by a revolutionary in 1793.
Head hairs and remnants of a mustache and beard, colored red and white, Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses on the mummified head fit with the known characteristics of the king's hair at the time of his death. Many features matched those in portraits of the king, the team said.
The king is known to have sported an earring, along with others from the Valois court.
Charlier said features consistent with those of the king's face were found including "a dark mushroom-like lesion" near the right nostril,Discount Ray Ban Sunglasses a healed facial stab wound and a pierced right earlobe.
The multi-disciplinary team, led by forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier, announced the discovery in the British Medical Journal.
But a team of experts using advanced scientific techniques say they have conclusively identified the head,Ray Ban Sunglasses On Sale passed down over the centuries by private collectors, as that of the monarch.
Few remains of those bodies have ever been found and positively identified since.
The head was Ray Ban Gentlest Sunglasses apparently lost after revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris in 1793.
A team of scientists say they have positively identified an embalmed head,Coach outlet presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France who was assassinated in 1610.
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