2024-02-13 10:17:53
With the forensic scientist’s scalpel and the archaeologist’s trowel, Philippe Charlier succeeds in making people talk about the illustrious dead: from Marat to Picasso, from Marie-Madeleine to Napoleon I, what we learn from the autopsy of the hearts and organs of famous people ? How do the latest scientific advances help solve the great enigmas of History? (Rebroadcast June 13, 2023).
Philippe Charlier is carrying out a double investigation, historical and medical, with a fixed idea: to make the illustrious dead speak. How does he achieve this? What do autopsies of the hearts and organs of famous people teach us? What did Marie-Madeleine, Marat, Balzac, Napoleon I or even Bonaparte succumb to? Can science explain the creative genius of a Picasso? Why does the canonization of Pauline Jaricot, who died in 1862, depend on the state of preservation of her heart?
With Philippe Charlier, forensic pathologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and director of the Department of Research and Education at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (Paris). It is to him that we owe the identification of the remains of Diane de Poitiers, Henri IV or Hitler. For his book “ Autopsy of famous hearts », published by Tallandier.
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