They wanted to make sure he stayed dead!
You were wonderin' when somebody was gonna post that, didn't ya!
GGG Ping.
But he is still dead..right? 200 years ago, right? mmmmm did Bush have anything to do with this? Where was Rove?
Meadow Muffin
I have laid awake for my whole life worrying about this. Now I can sleep.
Interesting. Thanks.
Sure, by 1821, Napoleon was hors combat, but suppose he'd escaped in, say, 1818, with 3 years to live. His son lived, an Austrian Prince.
It is conceivable that the French, disatisfied by the return of the Bourbons, may have flocked to the ill Bonaparte again. And by 1818, Europe's armies that had fought at Waterloo or were moving towards the French frontiers had been decommissioned. Sure, they could have been raised again, but it would have taken time.
And an astute Bonaparte, conscious of the dual role of his son as a French prince AND a Habsburg prince, may have very well been able to solidify a deal to the liking of the Habsburg's whereby Napoleon II would assume the throne of a France joined by close royal marriage and lineage to Austria.
The same may have been true even as late as 1820. Indeed, the farther the war receded, the more likely that an ill Napoleon could have struck a deal with the Hapsburgs, especially if he didn't do anything crazy like launch the armies at the frontiers again.
I always heard he died of a broken heart. Damn those evil medical scientists.
I gather my "Dog Gone Potato Chip Diet" book just took a hit.
B.S. He's alive and living in Argentina under an assumed German name.
"Napoleon died of a very advanced case of gastric cancer"
Which would explain his hand in his vest?
I thought it was already "proved" he was slowly poisoned through his wine by examining his hair samples.
The guy is dead...a long time ago...let it go already!
So that explains why he always had his hand on his stomach in all those paintings.
medical ping
from BBC:
"According to two French forensic specialists in Strasbourg, tests on five strands of Napoleon's hair preserved since his death confirm "major exposure to arsenic"."
They wanted to make sure he stayed dead!
You were wonderin' when somebody was gonna post that, didn't ya!
I may croak if I discover "Grant Money" was the reason this "Study" was initiated.
I swear... Government will be the Death of me
TT
***"Even today, with the availability of sophisticated surgical techniques and chemotherapies, patients with gastric cancer as advanced as Napoleon's have a poor prognosis." ****
Tell that to Fidel Castro.
Maybe Montholon, his alleged assassin will be cleared now but he remains a sinister cypher in my book.