17/09/2025

A French TV Documentary on the Codebreaking of Mary Stuart's Letters Premiered in Paris

The 2023 discovery of more than fifty ciphered letters by Mary Stuart (which I reported here) received worldwide media coverage. The story of Mary Stuart, with a particular focus on our codebreaking, has now been made into a French TV documentary, Marie Stuart, l'énigme des lettres codées. The program not only portrays the tragic queen's later life through high-quality reenactments and interviews with historians, but also highlights how her coded letters were deciphered, featuring interviews with the three of us, the authors of the original paper. (Yes, I appear in it!)

The program is scheduled to air on ARTE in France on 27 September (program guide). Ahead of the broadcast, the world premiere took place on 16 September at the BnF -- the French National Library where Mary's coded letters had been preserved for centuries without being recognized as such).

The trailer is available on YouTube.

2 comments:

  1. "En ma fin est mon commencement" écrivait Marie STUART. Je propose cette explication : "en ma fin" = à la mort de STUART "Est mon commencement" = Marie revivra.

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  2. yannickthomas99@yahoo.fr pour le commentaire ci-dessus et BRAVO à vous 3 pour votre talent et le don que vous faites à l'Histoire.

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