Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Louis XIV died in 1715, doctors believed they understood exactly what claimed the life of Europe’s longest-reigning monarch.

The researchers believe they have discovered the real cause of death for the King of France, who died in 1715, per The Times and Le Parisien The king's cause of death was previously recorded as ...

Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...