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NOTE
Judging from the scientifically rigorous conclusions (as least as far as I can tell) of a recent study, a Texan team of scientists has repeated (what I have always believed) that the Emperor died of stomach cancer, probably as a result of a bacterial infection linked to a poor diet. These conclusions confirm those of another team which, a few months ago, carefully studied both the documentary evidence and Napoleon's clothing.
This is a huge 'scientific' effort simply to confirm what we have known now for one hundred and eighty years. In 2001, the doctor-historian Jean-François Lemaire came to the same conclusion, and he spent no more money than the price of the Saint Helena memoirs and some medical text books.
It's funny to think that forty-five years ago, Texan coroners and researchers, the predecessors of those today who have solved the Napoleon case, were unable to say how many bullets killed President Kennedy, and there they had a film, the murder weapon and (although it must be said, briefly) the presumed culprit!
Forty years of scientific progress, you might say.
Thierry Lentz
Worth a read: the article presenting the scientists' conclusions regarding Napoleon's death.
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THIS MONTH'S OBJECT
La Païva's bed
This extravagant mahogany bed remains a mystery. Although it is true that it embodies the life of the French courtisane in the second half of the 19th century, there is however no proof that it was ever present in any one of the mansions belonging to the Marquise de Païva, one of the Second Empire most famous high-class call girls…
The head of the bed © Artcurial
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NAPOLOGOS AND RINGTONES FOR BELGIUM!
Our readers in Belgium can now download the Napoleonic logos and ringtones for their portable telephones.
© Fondation Napoléon
Click here
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200 YEARS AGO
On 31 January, 1807, the empress Josephine was back in Paris, at the Tuileries Palace. (Moniteur, 1 February, 1807)
She had travelled as far as Mainz, hoping to join Napoleon in Warsaw. But the emperor was much taken up with his Polish campaign and his love tryst with the Comtesse Walewska, and so he wrote several times to his wife trying to persuade her not to come:
«I am grieved that you are suffering; however you must obey the circumstances; from Mainz to Warsaw is too long a journey […]. In my opinion, you should return to Paris, where you are needed… » (Correspondence n°11543, dated 2 January, 1807) «The weather is cold, the roads very bad and dangerous (…) Return to Paris for the winter» (Correspondence n°11572, 7 January, 1807); «I could not allow a woman to undertake such a journey (…). Return to Paris, and be happy there and content; perhaps I too will be there soon» (Correspondence n°11679, 23 January, 1807)
150 YEARS AGO
Napoleon III confronted with the Economic crisis of 1857-1858
Article by Jacques Wolff.
In 1857, France during the Second Empire experienced its first slump. But Napoleon III had already been thinking what he would do in such an eventuality, and how he would solve the crisis.
Read all about it.
Stars
On 27 January, 1857, the Princess de Lieven died in Paris. Her salon had been the meeting point for the great and the good both in diplomacy and in literature,
such as Adolphe Thiers, Prosper Mérimée and Augustin Thierry.
Wishing you an excellent, Napoleonic, week.
Peter Hicks
Historian and Web editor
THE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN, No 400, 26 January - 1 February, 2007
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THIS WEEK in the MAGAZINE
WHAT'S ON
Conferences:
- Napoleon at the Zenith: a bi-centennial seminar, Liverpool, UK
Exhibitions:
- Das Königreich Württemberg 1806–1918. Monarchie und Moderne (The kingdom of Württemberg 1806–1918. Monarchy and modernity), Stuttgart, Germany
- Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, MoMA, New York, USA - closes soon
- Champignon Bonaparte - illustrations by Gilles Bachelet
- Dagoty in Paris - the Empress Josephine's porcelain manufactory, Reuil-Malmaison, France
- Napoleon III and Europe - 1856, Paris, France
- Public Portraits, Private Portraits 1770-1830, Grand Palais, Paris, France
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