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Napoleon's cause of death
Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena. From February 182 1, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly. On May 5th of the same year, Napoleon died on the island. On May 8th, the conqueror was buried beside Tolbert Springs on St Helena and paid tribute to him. Today, there are still different opinions about the cause of Napoleon's death. The autopsy report of a British doctor showed that he died of a severe gastric ulcer. However, according to a new study, 1980, the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Glasgow in England examined Napoleon's body, and he should have died of arsenic poisoning. Moreover, historians also found minerals containing arsenic from the wallpaper that the nobles loved in those days. It is speculated that arsenic has infiltrated into the air because of the humid environment. It is generally believed that in order to prevent Napoleon from returning to France, the Bourbon dynasty bribed his attendants to put arsenic in Napoleon's special oak barrel wine, and the British personnel in charge of supervising the prison were negligent, which led to Napoleon's assassination.

Nine years after his death, the New Orleans Dynasty, under the pressure of the state, re-erected the statue of Napoleon on the pillar of Vendom. 1840, Louis Philippe sent his son to retrieve Napoleon's body. In the same year 65438+February 65438+May, Napoleon's coffin was transported back to Paris, passed the Arc de Triomphe and was buried in the Honorary Military Hospital on the Seine.