Fabulous discovery of a mummy noble lady of the seventeenth century … – Le Point

Louise Quengo, Breton noble lady of the seventeenth century, is pissed. What are these louts who come to force his lead coffin resting in the convent of Rennes Jacobins? Who are they for having captured the heart of her husband lying at his feet in a lead reliquary, to have damned naked, to have it put down every angle and finally to violate medical confidentiality revealing the reasons for his death? The answer, as we have. Those guilty of the rape of burial are Inrap archaeologists (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research), working on behalf of Rennes Métropole.

Between 2011 and 2013, these explorers of the past have received Mission to search thoroughly the convent of Rennes Jacobins before it is turned into a sad Convention Centre. They discover that it has served for centuries a place of burials. More than eight hundred graves were counted. But most archaeologists fall five lead coffins. Excitement! They are like kids in front of a Kinder egg. What is the surprise inside? Four sarcophagi contain only skeletons of noble personages. The fifth, found at the base of a wall of the Chapel of St. Joseph, is correct.

Life monastic

The casket containing the body of a noble lady wrapped in a religious costume of the seventeenth century in a state of extraordinary conservation, ready to get up. The flesh is soft. Nothing is missing, flesh, skin, hair, internal organs, including the brain. A beautiful mummy. This is Louise Quengo, Brefeillac lady died in 1656 and widow of noble and powerful Toussaint Perrien, Brefeillac-Querbrézelec lord died in 1649. Very pious, all had founded five years before the death of Knight Convent Saint-Sauveur, near the town of Carhaix. At the time, he was in the habit of leaving his bowels to his family or a religious institution. Thus, at the death of her husband lady Quengo kept his heart in a reliquary for it to be slipped into his coffin at his death. These are the entries in the reliquary, which enabled the identification of the spouses.

Finally, the eternal repose lasted less than five centuries for Louise. His body has been the subject of multiple reviews to determine their health status and to know the reason of death. Examination of pathogens, including that of tuberculosis, will verify their evolution of the seventeenth century to the present. Finally, if Louise is dowdy in religious, it’s because she probably adopted the monastic life after the death of her husband. Inrap archaeologists have promised that after auscultation lady Quengo it would again be buried. But the damage is done.