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    Tattoos, Identity, and The Disturbing Fate of ‘Monsieur Bonheur’ - Clues to who the 19th century Frenchman was can be read on his unusually preserved remains.


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    When Gemma Angel met Monsieur Bonheur, she wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Angel, pursuing her doctorate at the University College London at the time, was studying a collection of hundreds of preserved pieces of tattooed skin from European soldiers, and she was no stranger to the unconventional and the macabre. But her first glimpse of Bonheur, in a private collection in London in 2010, still managed to surprise. “Bonheur was in his library, covered up, just leaning against the wall,” Angel says. “And it was kind of a shock, but also fascinating.”
    Angel had come to see the largely complete, tattooed skin of a 19th century Frenchman, which had been preserved, stuffed with horsehair, and nailed to a board. The remains, acquired some 20 years ago from an antique dealer in Paris, are currently in the possession of an individual who has asked to remain anonymous. That individual, and a handful of researchers granted access to study the unidentified Frenchman, call him “Monsieur Bonheur”—French for “happiness”—after one of his most prominent tattoos.

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    Using multispectral lights and filters (right), researchers were able to see additional details of some of the tattoos, including a uniformed figure chained to a pillar.

    mon.jpgMonsieur Bonheur’s lower limbs include “upside down” tattoos that would have been correctly oriented to him when seated, suggesting he may have tattooed these designs himself

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    The Illustrated Man...I try not to judge, but if you have tattoos anywhere on the neck or face? Do not apply...

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