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Pathographie is a branch of paleopathology which, like its parent subject, concerns itself with the study of human remains — but focuses on such rare cases where knowledge of the subject exists in the form of biographies and texts or portraits. It often concerns famous personalities and allows the disentanglement of truth-hood from falsehood in chronologies, anecdotes and historical legends.

Researchers utilize such framework as set by Philippe Charlier and his team who were able to give clarity to the cause of death of Agnès Sorel, royal mistress of France's Charles VII, to determine the true nature of the claims of relics of Jeanne d'Arc, to propose an identification of remains attributed to France's Louis XI and his second wife Charlotte de Savoie in the framework of one study directed by Patrice Georges, to set into today the skin of Diane de Poitiers in Anet, to affirm having autheticaed a mumified head like that of England's Henri IV, of which authentication is controversial.

International conferences in pathography have been organized since 2005, with first in Loches (2005, 2007), 2009 in Bourges, 2012 in Saint-Jean-de-Côle, 2013 in Bergues, and in Nancy in 2015 the 6th international conference held at the chapel of Cordeliers. Les actes de ces manifestations scientifiques sont publiés chez l'éditeur De Boccard à Paris.