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Paul Ferguson
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 Posted: Mon May 3rd, 2010 11:15 pm
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Wasn't sure where to put this so I'll put it here. About a year old but worth recording:

"When French experts dug up the remains of Diane de Poitiers last year, they found high levels of gold in her hair.
Since she was not a queen and did not wear a crown, scientists said it was hard to see how jewellery could have contaminated her hair and body.
Experts now say she probably consumed drinkable gold, believed at the time to preserve youth and treat a host of other ailments."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1236916/Dying-look-good-French-kings-mistress-killed-gold-elixir-youth.html


Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvaf-4Cbj4
[This is a trailer: for link to full-length video see next posting]

And:
http://www.lecoindelenigme.com/bizarreries-suite-4-bis-6partie.htm

"Selon Brantôme, Diane de Poitiers, la favorite d´Henri II, continuait d´être très belle malgré son âge très avancé, grâce à l'exercice physique régulier et à un régime très simple et distincts soins naturels de la peau, entre eux une potion d'Or Potable:

"J'ai vue Madame la Duchesse de Valentinois en l'age de soixante-dix ans, aussi belle de face, aussi fraîche et aussi aimable comme en l'age de trente ans [...] Et sur tout elle avait une très-grande blancheur, et sans se farder aucunement; mais on dit bien que tous les matins elle usait quelques bouillons composez d'or potable et autres drogues, fabriqués par les bons médecins et subtils apothicaires."

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Last edited on Tue May 4th, 2010 03:07 pm by Paul Ferguson

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 Posted: Tue May 4th, 2010 07:01 am
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And the full-length video (YouTube is a trailer) at the BMJ site

http://www.bmj.com/video/christmas.dtl

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 Posted: Tue May 4th, 2010 04:10 pm
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Alan Pritchard wrote:
And the full-length video (YouTube is a trailer) at the BMJ site

http://www.bmj.com/video/christmas.dtl

Alan


Thanks Alan. The BMJ site was down when I posted so I had to make do with the trailer.

The portrait in the original post is by François Clouet. Note the unicorn centre-left.

And here's a wonderful site about Diane by a direct descendant!

http://www.dianedepoitiers.sharibeck.com/


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