incredible story about the so-called head of Henry IV and the attempted authentication. Take it in yourself informed by reading this article published on the newspaper's website The Gazette on January 22 . What interested me most in this text and also in a radio report aired on Channel Radio-Canada is the role of a document found on the Internet by researchers document that would explain why the brains of the mummified head has not been removed, further supporting the thesis that would in the presence of the occiput of the King of France: " An Internet search brings the two journalists on the trail of a text by Alphonse de Lamartine specifies that Henri IV was embalmed in the manner of the Italians. "The document in question is the book VI of the History of Girondins published by Lamartine in Paris in 1861 and available on the Web, because scanned by Google. The reference is at the bottom of page 78 of the book in question. The scanned copy appears to be from the University of California who have received a gift in 1871 of FLA Pioche, a French banker in San Francisco. Without the availability of digital text, the doubt remained.
Michel Roberge
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