6/8/2004: 209-year-old royal heart
 

http://cellar.org/2004/louisxviiheart.jpg

209 years ago today, the ten-year-old Louis XVII died.

His parents, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, had their heads removed three years previous in the French revolution; and the boy, who would have been king, was imprisoned in a tiny cell. He caught tuberculosis and died, and they ditched his body; but before they did, his autopsy doctor cut his heart out to save it as a souvenir.

And then it was stolen; and then it was returned; and then it was bequeathed out of the country somehow; passed around Europe; lost; found in an Austrian castle in 1975, and finally returned to France.

And then of course there were rumors that it wasn't the heart after all, and so four years ago it was subject to DNA tests which matched its lineage with a lock of Marie-Antoinette's hair that had been saved.

So today they were to finally bury it once and for all. Hopefully they got the job done...

HOpe someone is going to be guarding that grave-

*off-key* ...take another little piece of my heart now baby...

Quit playin games with my heart!

Shot through the heart... *hairflip*... and you're to blame... *highkick*... darlin' you give love a bad name *kissyface*

that's disgusting
who would want a human heart as a souvenir??

Hannibal Lector? Jeffery Dahmer? The French?

hey, that glass egg thingy has a heart on!

My heart will go on.............

You know, in 10 years they could probably clone him.

Wow that hearts been around, does it have it's own Passport? Bad luck it didn't clock up any frequent flyer points.:)

This ol heart of mine, been broke 1,000 times each time you went away..........

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass

Anyone ever read "Snow, Glass, Apples", by Neil Gaiman?

No, but I read "The Telltale Heart". :)