Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs The Worlds Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved by Albert Jack

Author:Albert Jack
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781588368690
Published: 2014-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

But when his death was announced, a story circulated the courts of Europe that soldiers loyal to the king had substituted a dying peasant boy for the royal lad and he had been spirited away to safety and to await his coming of age and a suitable moment to retake the throne. It was suggested that the dauphin might have been smuggled out in a bathtub: a guard claimed that one of the men carrying a tub of water from the dauphin's room stumbled and the cry of a young boy could clearly be heard.

The doctor who performed the autopsy on the dead boy removed his heart, as was common at the time when a member of the royal family had died, and pickled it in alcohol—presumably to keep the royal livers company on the shelf. Ten years later, one of his students stole the jar and kept it hidden until his own death, when his wife sent it to the archbishop of Paris.

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