6/8/2004: 209-year-old royal heart

Undertoad · 06-08-2004, 10:51 AM

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...

jaguar · 06-08-2004, 10:58 AM

HOpe someone is going to be guarding that grave-

lookout123 · 06-08-2004, 10:59 AM

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

Bullitt · 06-08-2004, 01:07 PM

Quit playin games with my heart!

lookout123 · 06-08-2004, 01:18 PM

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

Guess · 06-08-2004, 03:06 PM

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

melidasaur · 06-08-2004, 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by Guess
that's disgusting
who would want a human heart as a souvenir??

Hannibal Lector? Jeffery Dahmer? The French?

lumberjim · 06-08-2004, 03:43 PM

hey, that glass egg thingy has a heart on!

poohbearbeth · 06-08-2004, 05:17 PM

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

MAdMoNKEY · 06-08-2004, 05:32 PM

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

Leah · 06-08-2004, 05:47 PM

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

poohbearbeth · 06-08-2004, 06:30 PM

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

jinx · 06-08-2004, 06:33 PM

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

Happy Monkey · 06-08-2004, 06:36 PM

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

xoxoxoBruce · 06-08-2004, 07:38 PM

No, but I read "The Telltale Heart".

06-08-2004, 10:51 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	6/8/2004: 209-year-old royal heart 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...

06-08-2004, 10:58 AM	#2
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	HOpe someone is going to be guarding that grave- __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

06-08-2004, 10:59 AM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	off-key ...take another little piece of my heart now baby... __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-08-2004, 01:07 PM	#4
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Quit playin games with my heart! __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

06-08-2004, 01:18 PM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	Shot through the heart... hairflip... and you're to blame... highkick... darlin' you give love a bad name kissyface __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-08-2004, 03:06 PM	#6
Guess What's my name? Guess Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 69	that's disgusting who would want a human heart as a souvenir?? __________________ "Earth laughs in flowers" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

06-08-2004, 03:43 PM	#8
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	hey, that glass egg thingy has a heart on! __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

06-08-2004, 05:17 PM	#9
poohbearbeth Keeper of the Decorum Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 59	My heart will go on.............

06-08-2004, 05:32 PM	#10
MAdMoNKEY Smooth Ruffian Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Right behind you! Posts: 47	You know, in 10 years they could probably clone him. __________________ "Oooh oooh aaahh aaahh! slap!" - MAdMoNKEY

06-08-2004, 05:47 PM	#11
Leah Love my Heffalumps Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia (best place in the world) Posts: 346	Wow that hearts been around, does it have it's own Passport? Bad luck it didn't clock up any frequent flyer points.

06-08-2004, 06:30 PM	#12
poohbearbeth Keeper of the Decorum Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 59	This ol heart of mine, been broke 1,000 times each time you went away..........

06-08-2004, 06:33 PM	#13
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Once I had a love and it was a gas Soon turned out had a heart of glass __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

06-08-2004, 06:36 PM	#14
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Anyone ever read "Snow, Glass, Apples", by Neil Gaiman? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

06-08-2004, 07:38 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, but I read "The Telltale Heart". __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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