The Renaissance of the French poet from the fire of Notre Dame; The skeleton of “Two Yes” was discovered

Two years ago, archaeologists working on the Notre Dame fire restoration project discovered a pair of lead coffins under a passageway.

At that time, the identity of one of the people placed in the coffin was determined from a tablet and an inscription attached to the coffin, ArtNet wrote. That coffin belonged to “Antoine de la Porte”, a great patron of the cathedral, who died in 1710. However, the person’s identity was not known.

As a result, the remains were transferred to the forensic laboratory at the University of Paul Sabatier in southwest France, and researchers now believe that the second coffin probably belonged to Joachim de Blay, a popular 16th-century poet whose poems are still in schools. French is taught.

_{Excavation site in Notre Dame Passage}

This news was published by the Institute of Archeology on September 17. It had long been known that the “Two Yells” were buried in Notre-Dame. He had served as a minor cleric in the cathedral. The uncle who raised him, Jean de Blas, was a former bishop of Paris who had served as president of the College of Cardinals in Rome; But the location of his grave was not known.

As a result of the investigations, it was found that this skeleton belongs to a man who died in his mid-30s and was suffering from tuberculosis and meningitis. Previously, experts knew that “Du Bel” died in Paris in 1560 at the age of 37, and in the last decade of his life, he struggled with illness and suffered from deafness. Another clue that helped identify this skeleton was the presence of signs of damage to his hip bone, which suggests that he had probably spent a lot of time on horseback. Researchers already knew that “Du Bel” was a prominent horseman, traveling between Paris and Rome on horseback in the 1850s.

After a fire destroyed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in April 2019, archaeologists began a massive restoration project at the cathedral. To date, more than 100 graves as well as several statues and religious works have been discovered in this place. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is scheduled to reopen to the public in December.