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France 3
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France Televisions
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The France 3 teams open the doors to the Paris Fashion Museum, which houses costumes that belonged to Marie-Antoinette or Napoleon I. That of a magistrate victim of the Paris Commune, whose 150th anniversary is being celebrated this year, attracts particular attention.
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The Paris Fashion Museum conceals many treasures. There are famous costumes there, for example having been worn by Marie-Antoinette or Louis XVII. “All of these garments are understood to be relic garments“, estimates Alexandre Samson, curator of collections at the museum. But one of them is particularly original. The garment indeed belonged to a magistrate, Louis-Bernard Bonjean, president of the Court of Cassation in 1871.
This conservative Catholic died on May 24, shot by order of the Paris Commune. His family recovered his body and kept his costume. “What is interesting with this garment is that we are going to do ballistics and forensic medicine without a corpse, and we will replace the corpse with all the traces that surround the clothes.“, explains the forensic scientist, anthropologist and archaeologist Philippe Charlier. He and his five students took samples from the spots, before dressing a mannequin with the costume of the deceased. With chopsticks, they also reconstruct the trajectory of the bullets. The goal is to find the exact cause of his death and to know, for example, if the first round of bullets was fatal for the magistrate.
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