FRENCH KING’S HEAD
The claims of a French writer, M. Joseph Bouddais, that a mummified head he bought for sixpence at a Paris auction sale ten years aga is that of King Henry IV., the debonnair and romantic King of France and Navarre, has excited interest among historians in Paris. M. Bourdais says the head resembles the king's portraits. He also states that when the remains of the French kings were removed from their tombs by the revolutionaries in 1793 portions were afterwards preserved, and came into the possession of the German, Count von Erbach, whose home was sacked by Napoleon’s soldiers. These soldiers brought the head back to France.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 13
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110FRENCH KING’S HEAD Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 13
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