The blood of beheaded French King Louis XVI has been found by
scientists in an old gourd. Louis XVI was beheaded by a
guillotine by French revolutionaries in 1793. Scientists found a
small piece of fabric placed inside of a hollow gourd, which
left blood stains. The squash was decorated with words that say,
“On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in
the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation”and belonged to a
family in Italy.The scientists said the DNA is very similar to
genetic material from what is believed to be the mummified head
of an earlier French king, AFP reports. The gourd has been in
the hands of an Italian family for a century. The monarch was
killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200
years ago, on 21 January 1793.The BBC reported that after Louis
XVI’s beheading, spectators were believed to have dipped their
handkerchiefs in his blood. For years, researchers have been
trying to establish whether a genuine memento of this momentous
execution in the Place