The Ornamented Being

Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.

Posted 2 years ago
I am so happy that this is real. I love modern technology. DNA was extracted from a lock of Marie Antoinette’s hair that was snipped from her head as a child. Her DNA matched a sample taken from a heart believed to be from her son, King Louis XVII.

2) Heart shaped pendant locket with the hair of Marie Antoinette set under glass or rock-crystal with an inscribed card and mounted in a gold filigree frame. A small gold padlock is suspended from the base with a key on a chain attached to the suspension loop.

I know which museum I’m going to when I get back to London.

3) The heart of Louis XVII, the 10-year-old heir to France’s throne who died in the Paris fortified Temple prison on June 8, 1795. The heart, that was cut from Louis XVII’s body following a tradition of keeping royal hearts separate from their bodies.

4) The Lost Dauphin
- 18th century
- Louis XVI
- british museum
- dauphine
- filigree
- france
- hair
- key
- lock
- lock of hair
- marie antoinette
- rococo
- rococo
- dna
- heart
- lost dauphin
- Louis XVII
- saint denis
- paris france
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