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France Stages Funeral for Royal Heart
Society | June 9, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Carved jar with the heart of Louis XVII is placed next to a crown in France's royal crypt during a mass in the Saint-Denis Basilica, outside Paris. The heart is to be buried near graves of his parents Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI. Photo by China Daily.
French royalists staged a pageant-filled funeral Tuesday for a tiny, rock-hard relic they hailed as the heart cut from Louis XVII, who died at age 10 in a filthy revolutionary prison.
A hearse brimming with lilies - the symbol of the French crown - delivered a crystal vase containing the heart to the Saint-Denis Basilica. There, it was placed in a royal crypt containing the remains of Louis XVII's decapitated parents, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.
After two centuries of mystery surrounding the boy's fate, DNA tests have convinced many historians that the relic passed secretly from person to person was truly the royal heart.
The Mass recognizing the royal heart attempted to end 209 years of legend and uncertainty about Louis XVII's death. Yet some skeptics insist the mystery remains unsolved.
While Louis XVII's story reached its epilogue on Tuesday, one scientist who probed the heart for DNA spoke of plans to investigate another historical figure. Jean-Jacques Cassiman of Belgium's Louvain University told VRT television about testing the DNA of Napoleon Bonaparte to make sure the body entombed in Paris is the real thing.
A hearse brimming with lilies - the symbol of the French crown - delivered a crystal vase containing the heart to the Saint-Denis Basilica. There, it was placed in a royal crypt containing the remains of Louis XVII's decapitated parents, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.
After two centuries of mystery surrounding the boy's fate, DNA tests have convinced many historians that the relic passed secretly from person to person was truly the royal heart.
The Mass recognizing the royal heart attempted to end 209 years of legend and uncertainty about Louis XVII's death. Yet some skeptics insist the mystery remains unsolved.
While Louis XVII's story reached its epilogue on Tuesday, one scientist who probed the heart for DNA spoke of plans to investigate another historical figure. Jean-Jacques Cassiman of Belgium's Louvain University told VRT television about testing the DNA of Napoleon Bonaparte to make sure the body entombed in Paris is the real thing.
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