Philippe Delorme is a French

France

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 historian

Historian

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 and journalist

Journalist

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, whose articles have appeared in Point de Vue and Historia

Historia

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, among others.

He was born in Pantin

Pantin

Pantin is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe. Its post code is 93500.Pantin was once the site of Motobecane's operations...

.

He has written numerous biographies of France's great queens, all published by Editions Pygmalion.

His most celebrated books, L'affaire Louis XVII (Tallandier, 1995, 2000) and Louis XVII : la vérité (Pygmalion, 2000) have attracted intense interest from the public and the media due to their groundbreaking analyses of DNA research on a human heart long-supposed to be that of Louis XVII

Louis XVII of France

Louis XVII , from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France; and from 1791 to 1793 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette...

, dead in Temple Tower, Paris, in 1795. He published, in June 2009, an edition of the Journal du comte de Chambord (1846–1883) (Ed. Oeil - FX de Guibert), the never published Diary of Henri, comte de Chambord

Henri, comte de Chambord

Henri, comte de Chambord was disputedly King of France from 2 to 9 August 1830 as Henry V, although he was never officially proclaimed as such...

, the last Bourbon Pretender to the French Crown. In May 2010, he published a nonconformist biography of the French king Henry IV

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

 : "Henri IV, les réalités d'un mythe" (Ed. de l'Archipel).

External links

• Personal website of Philippe Delorme (in French)