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  • It's quite an intriguing story when written by Deborah Cadbury; she really makes the characters and scenes come alive for a story that most people are already tired of hearing about. If you're looking for some nonfiction that feels like you're reading an escapist adventure fantasy, this book is defi ... Continue

    It's quite an intriguing story when written by Deborah Cadbury; she really makes the characters and scenes come alive for a story that most people are already tired of hearing about. If you're looking for some nonfiction that feels like you're reading an escapist adventure fantasy, this book is definitely going to be a good read.

    

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  • Excellent investigative history book!

    

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Two years after the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the height of the French Revolution, a ten-year-old boy, his skin covered with scabies, his sanity gone, died in a Paris prison. Was this tortured child of royal birth, or had the young prince escaped? In time, the prince's surviving sister was approached by count-less 'brothers' claiming not only the dauphin's name, but also his inheritance. For the next 200 years, as rival royal dynasties vied for the French throne, this mystery went unsolved. It was not until experts discovered a mummified human heart in a crystal urn that the truth unfolded. Examining this historical mystery from every absorbing angle, Cadbury explains how modern DNA analysis uncovered a surprising answer to this centuries old mystery.

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