The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-28

IT HE hearts of the greatest Kings and
the loveliest Princesses in French his
tory have been ground UP to make rich
colors for French painters
Documentary evidence exists to prove that
this seemingly incredible freak Of grewsome
superstition is really fact. .<-+
Now We may believe that the exquisite col.
oring which gives tenderness to landscape
by Mllet comes from the heart Of a gentle
Princess. and that the vigor Of Franz Halls
cavalier comes from the real heart Of some
old tyrant
The revelations concerning these transac-
tions in hearts are published in the Bulletin
Of the Academy of Arts OF Berlin, very
reputable publication Frenchmen. however.
we're the first to investigate the subject, as
French Kings and French artists are princi'
pally concerned.
1t is well known that during the French
Revolution the bodies OF the Kings OF France
and their families. who had been buried for
thousand years in the ancient Abbey Of st.
Denis. near Paris, were dug up and cast into
a common trench There were the bodies Of
Dagobert. one Of the early founders Of the
monarchy: Saint Louis, the canonized King;
the terrible Queen Catherine de Medic,
Henry OF Navarro, and hundreds OF others
who are famous In the long annals OF French
history.
After the monarchy was restored in 1885,
the remains Of the Kings and Queens were
dug up from their nameless graves and put
together as carefully as possible. and
buried in the Abbey Of St Denis. which was
also carefully restored. In putting the bodies
only
the information Of few men who had seen
the original coifns opened 1t has always
been regarded as most probable that the legs
OF King we're placed with the head Of
another, and that other si'uilar confusions
took place during the reburial.
The actual veburial took place in 1917. A
picture OF this ceremony has just been placed
on exhibition in the Musee Carnavalet, which
is devoted entireiy 10 matters connected with
the history OF Paris. ne exhibition OF this
picture has led 20 the revelation OF the mis-.
OF tie royal hearts.
A document relating TO the reburial was
unearthcd from the National Archives OF
France and attached to the picture to make
ii more instructive. 1t read as follows
The royal corpses were transported to-day,
January IS, 1917, 10 the Abbey OF ST Denis in
mony was attended by the clergy and a guard
Of honor. They were buried in two vaults OF
which each sixteen feet square. la the
one were laid seven Kings, seven Queens and
forty-seYen Princes and Princesses OF the
House OF Bourbon In the other were laid
eighteen Kings OF earlier lines, from Dagobert
up 10 King Henry ". ten Queens and TWEEN
ty.four Princes and Princesses of their faui-
lies When the emony was over | asked
the superintendent for permission 10 open a
few of the royal sarcophaguses, So that |
oJuld get glimpse Of the bodies He gave
his permi issicn. and oDening them | found that
the coTpses we're !cssilized and looked very
much like the mummies There was no trace
OF their hearts 1t was evident that the hearts
had been taken from the bodies-"
or the corner of the painting was written
separately a number and shelf mark and tho
words National Archives" This gave clue
TO the we'll known French literary man. Ernest
Daudet. and enabled MIN 10 hnd large