Every
country has dozens of stories about the mysterious death of their
beloved leaders/heroes - John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Marilyn Monroe, Subhas
Chandra Bose… are a few that instantly come into my mind at least...
Likewise, the French too never get tired of stories about
the death of their greatest warrior Napoleon Bonaparte! I always thought that napoleon
died due to stomach cancer, but most of the French people refuse it and call it
he was poisoned! There’s more than enough
of mystery around napoleons death, burial, tomb and even on his DNA!
The greatest emperor of Europe - Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled
to St. Helena – an island in the Atlantic Ocean, after loosing his final battle
at the #waterloo in 1815. He was in the custody of British for 6 years and died at
St. Helena in 1821. Ever since, the circumstances of his demise have been
creating a lot of debate.
Arsenic Poisoning:
Autopsy reports of Napoleon shows high amount #arsenic in his
body, which is more than a poison. Many of the French believe that the British
might have poisoned napoleon fearing that he might escape the #exile again* and reconquer
the France!
(* Even before the Waterloo, Napoleon had lost the “Battle
of #montmartre” in 1814 and was exiled to the Elba Islands. Brave Napoleon spent nine months of exile at the Elba - only to plan and regain the Paris back. But,
this time he was out of luck, he could led France only for the next 100 days till
he was defeated again at Waterloo and exiled to St. Helena Islands where he died)
But the doubt of poisoning got strengthened when Napoleon’s coffin
was dug-up in 1840 from Helena and bring it back to France. There was the surprise:
His body was intact in perfect condition even after 25 years of burial !.
This made the scientist to suggest that Napoleon might have slowly
poisoned with arsenic - which is apparently one of the most effective
preservative too!
Le retour des cendres
Another conspiracy
was around the “#retour_des_Cendres – the return of the remains of Napoleon
from St. Helena to Paris.
18 October,
1840 the coffin of Napoleon was exhumed St.Helena and transferred to the ship “Belle
Poule ” sailing back to Paris. The trip from #Helena to Paris was too long
over two months, in between the body of napoleon was shifted twice to different
boats, giving ample opportunities for speculations J.
There are
some stories saying the body buried at Les #Invalides in Paris is not actually
Napoleon’s, but it was one of napoleons caretakers from St.Helena!. These
people are still asking to exhume his body again from the Invalides and do go
for a DNA test !
Napoleon
remains in news even after he dies! His death, burial, ashes, tomb…everything
are still a matter of debate!
Read the
detailed history at :
- http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/napoleon/PopularHistory/c_Epilogue.html
- http://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/the-death-of-napoleon-bonaparte-and-the-retour-des-cendres-french-and-british-perspectives/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retour_des_cendres
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