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  • Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found

    06/04/2015 4:17:08 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 42 replies
    theguardian.com ^ | Wednesday 3 June 2015 18.40 EDT | Kim Willsher in Paris
    French archaeologists have uncovered the well-preserved body of a noblewoman who died 350 years ago – along with the clothes in which she was buried, including her cap and shoes, still intact. The corpse of Louise de Quengo, a widow from an aristocratic family from Brittany, was discovered in an hermetically sealed lead coffin placed in a stone tomb at a convent chapel in the western city of Rennes. Four other lead coffins dating from the 17th century were also found at the site of the Saint-Joseph chapel, as well as 800 other graves containing skeletons. Researchers expected to find...