2023-06-13 10:29:04
With the lawyer’s scalpel and the archaeologist’s trowel, Philippe Charlier succeeds in making the illustrious dead speak: from Marat to Picasso, from Marie-Madeleine to Napoleon 1st .. What does the autopsy of the hearts and organs of characters tell us? famous? How do the latest scientific advances make it possible to solve the great enigmas of History?
Philippe Charlier is carrying out a double investigation, historical and medical, with one fixed idea: to make the illustrious dead speak….How does he achieve this? What do we learn from autopsies of the hearts and organs of famous people? What succumbed to Marie-Madeleine, Marat, Balzac, Napoleon 1is Or even Bonaparte? 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 scientist, 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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