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Lost King of France, The: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Deborah Cadbury
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 Two years after the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the height of the French Revolution, a ten year old boy, his skin covered with tumors and scabies, his sanity slipping away, died alone in Temple Prison, Paris, killed by neglect instead of decapitation. Was he really the son of the doomed royal couple, as many claimed? For the next two hundred years a series of imposters laid claim to the French throne, a mysterious mummified heart passed through a melange of fascinating curato... more info>> 2002
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