The Battle of Mergenheim on May 2, 1645 was not of decisive importance, it was nothing more than a tactical clash between two small armies, a French one under the famous (later) Field Marshal Turenne and an imperial-Bavarian one under Franz of Lorraine von Mercy. In Mergenheim, however, it proved th
Detail of the vault of the collapsed transept crossing, with charred pieces of the spire frame, April 26, 2019 • INRAP/SERVICE DE PRESSE It has been more than a year since a fire destroyed part of Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019. As of July 30, an exceptional law entrusted Inrap (National
Underwear has been worn since time immemorial for two main reasons:on the one hand it protected the outer clothing from the uncleanliness of the human body, on the other hand it protected the body from abrasive materials in the outer clothing. In colder regions, multiple layers of clothing also dona
The 2000s were booming years for paleoanthropologists. If Lucy (1974) remained for nearly 25 years the grandmother of humanity, the discoveries in 2000 of Orrorin, dating back to 6 million years BC, then of Toumaï in 2001, who himself lived around 7 million years before our era, upset scientific kno