Monday morning, a funny autopsy conducted by Professor Charlier, forensic scientist, archaeologist and anthropologist, takes place in the reserves of the Palais Galliera in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Lying on a table, the jacket, the waistcoat, the pants and the belt of the provisional president Louis-Bernard Bonjean, executed by the Paris Commune on May 24, 1871, in the prison of La Roquette.
The study, not of the body, but of the clothing is held a few hundred meters from the place of death, but almost 150 years after the death of the victim.
It is also in the perspective of the anniversary, in 2021, of this bloody episode in the history of the capital that this examination is taking place, unprecedented for the Palais Galliera.
“
We are referred to as a fashion museum
,” explains curator Alexandre Samson who was behind this project,
forgetting that we are “the Fashion Museum of the city of Paris”.
And, in this, we preserve a part of the history of Paris, with its dramas.
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