article published in Il Resto del Carlino del19/10/2010: "From a pumpkin out the DNA of Louis XVI "
molecular anthropologists and forensic geneticists of our universities have recovered DNA from blood given to Louis XVI, King of France, guillotined by revolutionaries January 21, 1793, whose remains were found in blood of a precious gourd pyrography. And some genetic markers drawn from mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome, agree with the traits that, according to the paintings of the time, distinguished the sovereign, see blue eyes. According to
chronicles of the time there were many citizens who came to the gallows to dip their handkerchiefs in sanque have a memory of the monarch and enforcement. The team of David Petterner, Donata Luiselli, Susi Pelotti Carla Bini and in collaboration with the group led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones (CSIC) in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bhas analyzed the residues left by one of these tissues and the results indipendentement obtained by genetic analysis conducted in two laboratories, suggest that the extracted DNA could belong to the king of France.
Although not trace remains of the handkerchief, the scientists were able to analyze the remains of a brown substance remained lodged inside of a pumpkin Romagna owned by a family from the end of the 800 and valuable artworks. In fact, it shows pictures of various actors of the French Revolution, as Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marrat, Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI himself.
Interestingly, along with images, written text which tells the story of a witness the execution. Thanks to it you know that Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood, put it in the pumpkin and ordered a Parisian artist, Jean Roux decoration that ended Sept. 18, 1793, the researchers said the team of Bologna, working in laboratories Molecular Genetics and Forensic Anthropology. The intention was to sell the pumpkin Bourdaloue for 500 francs in L'Aquila, perhaps a nickname referring to the young Napoleon.
molecular anthropologists and forensic geneticists of our universities have recovered DNA from blood given to Louis XVI, King of France, guillotined by revolutionaries January 21, 1793, whose remains were found in blood of a precious gourd pyrography. And some genetic markers drawn from mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome, agree with the traits that, according to the paintings of the time, distinguished the sovereign, see blue eyes. According to
chronicles of the time there were many citizens who came to the gallows to dip their handkerchiefs in sanque have a memory of the monarch and enforcement. The team of David Petterner, Donata Luiselli, Susi Pelotti Carla Bini and in collaboration with the group led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones (CSIC) in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bhas analyzed the residues left by one of these tissues and the results indipendentement obtained by genetic analysis conducted in two laboratories, suggest that the extracted DNA could belong to the king of France.
Although not trace remains of the handkerchief, the scientists were able to analyze the remains of a brown substance remained lodged inside of a pumpkin Romagna owned by a family from the end of the 800 and valuable artworks. In fact, it shows pictures of various actors of the French Revolution, as Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marrat, Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI himself.
Interestingly, along with images, written text which tells the story of a witness the execution. Thanks to it you know that Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood, put it in the pumpkin and ordered a Parisian artist, Jean Roux decoration that ended Sept. 18, 1793, the researchers said the team of Bologna, working in laboratories Molecular Genetics and Forensic Anthropology. The intention was to sell the pumpkin Bourdaloue for 500 francs in L'Aquila, perhaps a nickname referring to the young Napoleon.
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