Mystery of Napoleon's Death Said Solved

www.livescience.com ^ | 16 January 2007 | Sara Goudarzi

[Vote 4 Nixon]

As Mr. Spock would say..."Fascinating".

[PDR]

There's no mystery.... He died. He's tits up. He joined the bleedin' choir invisable. He is an ex-Emperor.

[verum ago]

...and as Bones would say:

"He's dead, Jim"

[JRios1968]

Bush's fault!

[RightWhale]

The mystery of Napoleon's death was resolved yesterday on another thread.

[edcoil]

My great, great, great, great grandfather as his youngest Brother Jerome.

[lilylangtree]

What happened to the body since 1961? It's been quite awhile but I saw on the History Channel that the body was remarkably well-preserved which arsenic poisoning does. Can the authorities just exhume the body and perform a modern day autopsy, rather than just read all the reports and make a determination followed by a press conference to announce the findings?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

No wonder he was always holding his stomach.

[darkwing104]

Napoleon Bonaparte died?

[Red Badger]

DUhhhh..........

[WhirlwindAttack]

He's pining for the fjords.

[RexBeach]

I know why he died. His heart stopped.

[100-Fold_Return]

That's a pretty orange screen on your link...

[Savage Beast]

It's interesting to speculate that if Napoleon had succeeded in conquering Russia and reducing Tsar Alexander I to vassalage, under the influence of a united Continental Europe he may have been able to institute the social reforms that would have prevented the Russian Revolution and the Cold War.

It is also interesting to wonder how this might have influenced the present decadence that portends the final destruction of both Russia and Western Europe.

[Savage Beast]

I would think that if the body is still in a reasonably good state of preservation, the lesions could be examined microscopically and any doubt removed.

[Revolting cat!]

Fantastic read:

The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann

[Vote 4 Nixon]

He's still around.
http://www.napoleonguide.com/tours_naptomb.htm

[Young Werther]

My German Lit Teacher taught us that Napolean's favorite author was Wolfgang von Goethe. A novella that swept the hearts of the romantics of this era in Europe was "The Sorrows of Young Werther."

Napolean kept this novella in his breast pocket and periodically he would place his hand beneath his breast flap to touch this "touching tale!" thus he is always portrayed with his hand in his vest!

Werther and Stendahl's "Red and black" (le Rouge et Le Noir") are considered as the outstanding novels of the 19th Century! They rank with the Count of Monte Cristo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Three Musketeers on my reread list!!!

Guten Morgen!

[Hornet19]

It was rumored that Napoleon once said..."The only disadvantage to my being so short is that when I pass gas, I blow gravel in my shoes."

[Oztrich Boy]

It's interesting to speculate that if Napoleon had succeeded in conquering Russia and reducing Tsar Alexander I to vassalage, under the influence of a united Continental Europe he may have been able to institute the social reforms that would have prevented the Russian Revolution and the Cold War.

Social reforms? The guy who reinstituted slavery in the French West Indies?