The remains of aristocratic contemporaries and heroes of “The Three Musketeers” were found in a French monastery.
Despite the fact that the French mummified body in the distant XVII century, some parts of the body and clothing, well kept, reports Gazeta.ru,.
The body of scientists discovered a mass of mysteries contemporaries “my lady”.
The remains of aristocratic XVII century were found during construction the new convention center in the city of Rennes, the administrative center of the region of Brittany, in March 2014. According to archaeologists, the identity of the deceased may belong to Louise de Quang, who died in 1656 at age 60.
The woman was practically a contemporary of Constance Bonacieux – wives and mistresses haberdasher Bonacieux D’Artagnan from the novel by Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers “. Or it antagonistki winter lady of all the same work.
According to the scientists, the body was dressed in aristocratic mantle on her feet had shoes, and on his head – a headdress. Nearby lay the heart of her husband, Toussaint Perena aristocrat. This is due to the fact that in the XVII century in France was made to transfer the vital organs of the deceased or his relatives and religious institutions. Obviously, Louise de Quang was given the heart of a spouse after his death. When an aristocrat died, it was decided to bury her next to the fibro-muscular organ lover.
Louise de Quang spent most of his life in Brittany, a region in north-western France. However, after the death of a loved one woman he went to live in the monastery of St. Joseph, where her remains were found. According to experts, instead of being dressed in the best silks and jewels, she was an aristocrat dressed in a simple way – in a shirt of coarse cloth, a veil and a few hats. Her remains long only 5 feet (1 m 48 cm) was found in a lead coffin. Nearby were found four similar coffin in which scientists have found only skeletons.
It is assumed that only the monastery is located about 800 graves, but none of them are the remains have not been preserved so well as the grave of Louise de Quang .
Rosen Kolleter from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research said that under the cloak failed to recognize the “hand holding a crucifix.” The researcher describes the body as the aristocrat “naturally mummified – are particularly well preserved.” Natural mummification occurs when the body’s dead people find themselves in environments that prevent decomposition. Prevent degradation can hot and dry air or, conversely, low temperature.
After two MRI, dissection and study of DNA aristocrats, scientists were able to get some medical information about Louise de Kuang. Scanning the woman’s body was carried out in collaboration with scientists from the University of Toulouse.
An autopsy revealed that the aristocrat suffering from “a significant number of kidney stones” and “adhesions in the lungs.” According to experts, her heart “has been removed from the body with a large surgical skill”.
Most likely, Louise de Quang died as a result of infection with tuberculosis. According to scientists, it is important to study the ancient infection, to control the development of the disease in the future. The study of ancient infections are engaged not only the French: for example, recently a team of scientists from the University of Warwick studied the affected tuberculosis mummified bodies found in a 200-year-old crypt of the Dominican church in the Hungarian town of Sopron. Using the method of shotgun – fragmentation of the genome into random fragments, then determine their nucleotide sequence, the research team found that three hundred years ago, people were amazed no one type of tuberculosis, as now, but a few.
“With Louise us was a surprise after surprise, “- said Fabrice Dediu, a radiologist and a forensic scientist from Toulouse.
Clothing and damaged over time, currently restored and is expected to be put on public display. According to archaeologists, the discovery of the remains of aristocratic help better understand the funerary practices of the French elite of the XVII century. The body of Louise de Kuang be reburied in Rennes in a few months.
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