Henri IV de Bourbon was assassinated in 1610, and buried in the Saint Denis basilic in Paris. The french revolutionary national convention ordered the brutal desecration of royal graves of the basilic (46 Kings, 32 Queens, 63 Princes, and various high-rank officials) in 1793. The corpse of HenriIV was exposed to the public for days, then it is said his head was chopped off. His remains disappeared dumped into mass graves with all the other royals.

Then in a twist of history in 1919 a mummified head said to be the head of HenriiV was sold in a junk store for 3Francs in Paris. In 2010 a forensic study confirmed 23 historical and anthropological arguments in favor of the theory that the severed head was in fact the King’s skull.