Puech P F
Faculty of Medicine, Marseille La Timone, Nimes, France.
Int J Legal Med. 1995;107(4):209-12. doi: 10.1007/BF01428408.
The corpse of Louis XVII was autopsied in 1795 in order to leave no doubts as to the cause of his death in a troubled revolutionary period. It was searched in 1846 for identification purposes, but the estimated age of the subject unearthed did not fit. However, a forensic facial reconstruction on the skull showed a resemblance with Louis XVII that supports the theory of a substitution plot in 1795.
