The Louis XVII Affair
Publisher
:
Tallandier
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782235022637
Description
Thanks to recent developments in DNA technology, we learned earlier this year that Louis XVII did indeed die in 1795 at the age of ten. After two centuries of hypothesizing over whether Louis XVII had in fact escaped the guillotine, the strangest enigma in history has been solved. But for Philippe Delorme, these scientific findings in no way dissolve the legend of the little prince who was sacrificed for France. Delorme presents the simple elements of history and provides a new, definitive perspective on the affair. A gripping historical text.
Author
Philippe Delorme : Philippe Delorme is an historian and journalist whose articles have appeared in Point de Vue and Histoire, among others. He has written numerous biographies of France’s great queens, all published by Editions Pygmalion. His most celebrated books, L’affaire Louis XVII (Tallandier, 1995, 2000) and Louis XVII : la vérité (Pygmalion, 2000) have attracted intense interest from the public and the media due to their groundbreaking analyses of DNA research on a human heart long-supposed to be that of Louis XVII.
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