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Descartes skull to be moved to his school

The skull of philosopher René Descartes is to be moved from Paris to the school where he studied as a boy.

Prytanée military school near the north-western town of La Flèche has asked for the remains to be put on display in its adjoining church.

The institution believes the skull’s current home in the capital’s Musée de l’Homme – between busts of prehistoric man and retired footballer Lilian Thuram – is inappropriate.

Descartes’s body has been picked apart ever since he died in 1650. His fingers were taken for posterity, his bones for jewellery and his head for financial gain.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)