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Notre Dame's dead poet "cold case" mystery may be solved

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Joachim de Bellay , a French Renaissance poet, died aged 37 in 1560 .

His family asked for him to be buried in Notre Dame's Saint-Crepin chapel.

When the site was renovated in 1758 , no trace of his remains could be found.

His remains' precise location was shrouded in mystery until 2022 when archaeologists found two tombs at the cathedral's crossing.