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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:04 AM
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Royal funeral for pickled heart of Louis XVII
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/03/france.heart.ap/index.html

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In ceremonies on Monday and Tuesday, European royalty will honor the little boy who became a pawn of the French Revolution, dying alone in a filthy prison.

After a Mass on Tuesday, his heart will be laid to rest at the Saint-Denis Basilica near the graves of his parents, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.

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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:08 AM
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1. What's with the French and body parts, anyways?
They're always removing hearts or bones or penises (Napoleon) from the corpses of dead royalty.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:14 AM
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2. Einstein's brain is on someone's closet shelf in Kansas
Cut in pieces, in a big glass jar.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:17 AM
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3. You should see the collection the Vatican has
Oy vey!
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:33 AM
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4. Wasn't Louis XIV's heart eaten?
How horrible could that have been?

Wasn't Louis XV's heart NOT buried? (as tradition would have it)


Would be interesting to know.....from the history buffs here. :)
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