Napoleon’s conspiracy theories
April 28, 2021
Two hundred years after his death in exile, conspiracy theories continue to swirl about how exactly Napoleon Bonaparte met his end on the windswept South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
The official verdict, supported by an autopsy carried out by his British captors, was that he died aged 51 of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821. But even then many not just in France were sceptical, leading to numerous often colourful conspiracy theories.
Strongest among French conspiracy theories is the belief that Napoleon was slowly poisoned either by the British or by his confidante, Count Charles de Montholon, supposedly in the pay of French royalists opposed to the emperor’s return home.
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The official verdict, supported by an autopsy carried out by his British captors, was that he died aged 51 of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821.
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Two hundred years after his death in exile, conspiracy theories continue to swirl about how exactly Napoleon Bonaparte met his end on the windswept South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
The official verdict, supported by an autopsy carried out by his British captors, was that he died aged 51 of stomach cancer on May 5, 1821.
But even then many not just in France were sceptical, leading to numerous often colourful conspiracy theories.
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The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner at 1 Newhall Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, September 23, 2020.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
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