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Bloodstained Louis XVI cloth gets $24,000 at auction
A bloodstained cloth allegedly belonging to Louis XVI, the French king who was beheaded after the 1789 revolution, on Wednesday fetched a staggering 19,000 euros ($24,400) at a Paris auction. Kept in a miniature coffin, the cloth was estimated to go under the hammer for between 4,000 and 6,000 euros.…
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Two centuries after the French people beheaded Louis XVI and dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, scientists believe they have authenticated the remains of one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir. Researchers have been trying for years to verify a claim imprinted on an ornately decorated calabash that it…
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