A trio of codebreakers has found and deciphered a treasure trove of lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots.
from Mary Stuart to the French ambassador to England between 1578 and 1584, were written in an elaborate code. The findings come 436 years after Mary's death byMost of the letters were kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, mainly in a large set of unmarked documents that were also written in cipher — special graphical symbols. The documents were listed as datingThen, a trio passionate about cracking historical ciphers stumbled upon the documents.
Once the researchers began working through the unique ciphers, they quickly realized the correspondence was written using French, and there was nothing Italian about it. But Mary wasn't idle in captivity. She maintained regular correspondence with allies and tried to recruit messengers to hide her letters from enemies.Mauvissière, the French ambassador to England. The correspondence may have started as early as 1578. The ambassador forwarded letters from Mary to her agents in France.
"It's a stunning piece of research, and these discoveries will be a literary and historical sensation," Guy said. "They mark the most important new find on Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, for 100 years." "This is like solving a very large crossword puzzle," Lasry said. "Most of the effort was spent on transcribing the ciphered letters , and interpreting them — 50,000 words, enough to fill a book."
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