The Brazen Heist of a Human Heart in a Solid Gold Casket
Stolen from a French museum, the artifact was recovered by police a week later.
by Natasha Frost April 26, 2018
In death as in life, Anne of Brittany’s affairs of the heart are a saga for the ages. This 15th-century ruler—the only woman to marry two French kings, as well as a Holy Roman Emperor—died in 1514. After a funeral that lasted well over a month, she was buried in the royal necropolis of Saint Denis, north of Paris.
Well, almost all of her was: Detailed instructions in her will explained that her heart was to be cut out, placed in an intricate gold box, and then sent to Nantes, France, to be placed in her parents’ tomb. In the years since, however, that organ has had a dramatic second life, culminating in its theft last week from a museum in Nantes.
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