The Posthumous Story of the Adventurer Cartush

This publication continues a series of articles devoted to the restoration of the external appearance of historical figures based on their skulls. The method of paleo-anthropological facial reconstruction, developed by M.M.Gerasimov, is still in demand, although it has been significantly modified by the followers of the great scientist. This paper considers a negative historical figure, although his historical trail overshadows many good persons. His skull is kept in the Musée de l’Homme (Paris, France), where one of the authors was able to describe and measure it and made photographs, which served as the basis for creating an in-life graphic portrait. We see a face of an intelligent, charming person. These qualities, probably, helped the greatest adventurer of the 18th century to cheat the Parisian police. Comparison of the existing bas-relief and graphic reconstruction, performed on the skull, has been carried out using the photo alignment method.

Louis Dominique Bourguignon (Cartouche), craniometry, cranioscopy, anthropological facial reconstruction