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DNA analysis of hair from the royal mistress of Charles VII of France has indicated that she may have been murdered in 1450 by mercury poisoning.(Brief Article)

History Today,  June, 2005  

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DNA analysis of hair from the royal mistress of Charles VII of France has indicated that she may have been murdered in 1450 by mercury poisoning. The first official mistress to a king of France, Agnes Sorel died, aged twenty-eight, supposedly of dysentery. ...

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