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SL. NO. CONTENTS SLIDE NO. 
1) INTRODUCTION 4 - 5 
2) NAPOLEON AS EMPEROR OF 
FRANCE 
6 - 7 
3) METRIC SYSTEM 8 
4) LEGACY OUTSIDE FRANCE 9 
5) MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 10 - 11 
6) DEATH 12 – 13 
7) CAUSE OF DEATH 14 - 15 
8) BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 
9) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 16
Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769 to Carlo Maria di Bonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino in 
his family's ancestral home, Casa Bonaparte, in the town of Ajaccio, the capital of the island of 
Corsica. He was their 4th child and 3rd son. This was a year after the island was transferred to 
France by the Republic of Genoa. He was christened Napoleon di Bonaparte, probably named 
after an uncle (an older brother, who did not survive infancy, was the first of the sons to be 
called Napoleon). In his twenties, he adopted the more French-sounding Napoleon Bonaparte. 
The Corsican Bonapartes were descended from minor Italian nobility of Tuscan origin, who had 
come to Corsica from Liguria in the 16th century. 
His father, Nobile Carlo Bonaparte, an attorney, was named Corsica's representative to the 
court of Louis XVI in 1777. The dominant influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, 
Letizia Ramolino, whose firm discipline restrained a rambunctious child. Napoleon's maternal 
grandmother had married into the Swiss Fesch family in her second marriage, and Napoleon's 
uncle, the later cardinal Joseph Fesch, would fulfill the role as protector of the Bonaparte 
family for some years. 
He had an elder brother, Joseph; and younger 
siblings, Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline,Caroline and Jérôme. A boy and girl were born before 
Joseph but died in infancy. Napoleon was baptised as a Catholic.
Napoleon's noble, moderately affluent background and family connections afforded him greater 
opportunities to study than were available to a typical Corsican of the time. In January 1779, 
Napoleon was enrolled at a religious school in Autun, in mainland France, to learn French. In May 
he was admitted to a military academy at Brienne-le-Château. He always spoke with a marked 
Corsican accent and never learned to spell French properly. Napoleon was teased by other 
students for his accent and applied himself to reading. An examiner observed that Napoleon 
"has always been distinguished for his application in mathematics. He is fairly well acquainted 
with history and geography... This boy would make an excellent sailor. 
On completion of his studies at Brienne in 1784, Napoleon was admitted to the elite École 
Militaire in Paris. He trained to become an artillery officer and, when his father's death 
reduced his income, was forced to complete the two-year course in one year.He was the first 
Corsican to graduate from the École Militaire.He was examined by the famed scientist Pierre- 
Simon Laplace, whom Napoleon later appointed to the Senate.
NAPOLEON AS EMPEROR OF FRANCE 
While in Egypt, Bonaparte stayed informed of European affairs through irregular delivery of 
newspapers and dispatches. He learned that France had suffered a series of defeats in the War of 
the Second Coalition. On 24 August 1799, he took advantage of the temporary departure of British 
ships from French coastal ports and set sail for France, despite the fact he had received no explicit 
orders from Paris.The army was left in the charge of Jean Baptiste Kléber. 
Unknown to Bonaparte, the Directory had sent him orders to return to ward off possible invasions of 
French soil, but poor lines of communication prevented the delivery of these messages. By the time 
he reached Paris in October, France's situation had been improved by a series of victories. The 
Republic was, however, bankrupt and the ineffective Directory was unpopular with the French 
population. The Directory discussed Bonaparte's "desertion" but was too weak to punish him. 
Despite the failures in Egypt, Napoleon returned to a hero's welcome. In alliance with the 
director Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, his brother Lucien; the speaker of the Council of Five 
Hundred, Roger Ducos; another Director, Joseph Fouché; and Talleyrand, he overthrew the 
Directory by a coup d'état on November 9, 1799 ("the 18th Brumaire" according to the revolutionary 
calendar), and closed down the council of five hundred. Napoleon became "first consul" for ten years, 
with two consuls appointed by him who had consultative voices only. His power was confirmed by the 
new constitution ("Constitution of the year VIII"), originally devised by Sieyès to give Napoleon a 
minor role, but rewritten by Napoleon, and accepted by direct popular vote (3,000,000 in favor, 
1,567 opposed). The constitution preserved the appearance of a republic but in reality established a 
military dictatorship. The days of Brumaire sounded the end of the short-lived republic: no more 
representative government, assemblies, a collegial executive, or liberty.
Napoleon faced royalist and Jacobin plots as France's ruler, including the Conspiration des 
poignards (Dagger plot) in October 1800 and the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise (also known as 
the infernal machine) two months later. In January 1804, his police uncovered an assassination 
plot against him which involved Moreau and which was ostensibly sponsored by 
the Bourbon former rulers of France. On the advice of Talleyrand, Napoleon ordered the 
kidnapping of Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, in violation of neighbouring Baden's sovereignty. 
After a secret trial the Duke was executed, even though he had not been involved in the plot. 
Napoleon used the plot to justify the re-creation of a hereditary monarchy in France with 
himself as emperor. He believed a Bourbon restoration would be more difficult if the 
Bonapartist succession was entrenched in the constitution. Napoleon was elected as "Emperor of 
the French" in a plebiscite held in November. Since there would be an heir, it would also make it 
all but impossible to change the regime by assassinating Napoleon. As before, this vote was 
implausibly lopsided, with 99.93 percent officially voting yes. 
He was crowned by Pope Pius VII as Napoleon I, on 2 December 1804 at Notre Dame de 
Paris and then crowned Josephine Empress. According to legend, Napoleon seized the crown out 
of the hands of the pope at the last minute and crowned himself to avoid being subject to papal 
authority. However, this story is apocryphal; the coronation procedure had been agreed in 
advance. Ludwig van Beethoven, a long-time admirer, was disappointed at this turn towards 
imperialism and scratched his dedication to Napoleon from his 3rd Symphony.
The official introduction of the metric system in September 1799 was unpopular in large 
sections of French society, and Napoleon's rule greatly aided adoption of the new standard 
across not only France but the French sphere of influence. Napoleon ultimately took a 
retrograde step in 1812 when he passed legislation to introduce the measures 
usuelles (traditional units of measurement) for retail trade—a system of measure that 
resembled the pre-revolutionary units but were based on the kilogram and the metre; for 
example the livre metrique (metric pound) was 500 g instead of 489.5 g—the value of the livre 
du roi (the king's pound). Other units of measure were rounded in a similar manner. This 
however laid the foundations for the definitive introduction of the metric system across Europe 
in the middle of the 19th century.
Napoleon was responsible for spreading the values of the French Revolution to other countries. 
Napoleon provided the design for the flag of Italy on the basis of the French tricolour. 
The Napoleonic Code is a codification of law including civil, family and criminal law that Napoleon 
imposed on French-conquered territories. After the fall of Napoleon, not only was Napoleonic 
Code retained by such countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, 
but has been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican 
Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec. 
The memory of Napoleon in Poland is highly favourable, for his support for independence and 
opposition to Russia, his legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern 
middle class bureaucracies.
Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, when he was 26; she was a 32-year-old 
widow whose first husband had been executed during the Revolution. Until she met Bonaparte, 
she had been known as "Rose", a name which he disliked. He called her "Joséphine" instead, and 
she went by this name henceforth. Bonaparte often sent her love letters while on his 
campaigns. He formally adopted her son Eugène and cousin Stéphanie and arranged dynastic 
marriages for them. Joséphine had her daughter Hortense marry Napoleon's brother Louis. 
Joséphine had lovers, including a Hussar lieutenant, Hippolyte Charles, 
during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Napoleon learnt the full extent of her 
affair with Charles while in Egypt, and a letter he wrote to his brother 
Joseph regarding the subject was intercepted by the British. The letter 
appeared in the London and Paris presses, much to Napoleon's 
embarrassment. Napoleon had his own affairs too: during the Egyptian 
campaign he took Pauline Bellisle Foures, the wife of a junior officer, as 
his mistress. She became known as "Cleopatra" after the Ancient 
Egyptian rulerJoséphine had lovers, including a Hussar lieutenant, 
Hippolyte Charles, during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Napoleon learnt 
the full extent of her affair with Charles while in Egypt, and a letter he 
wrote to his brother Joseph regarding the subject was intercepted by 
the British. The letter appeared in the London and Paris presses, much to 
Napoleon's embarrassment. Napoleon had his own affairs too: during the 
Egyptian campaign he took Pauline Bellisle Foures, the wife of a junior 
officer, as his mistress. She became known as "Cleopatra" after 
the Ancient Egyptian ruler
While Napoleon's mistresses had children by him, Josephine did not produce an heir, possibly 
because of either the stresses of her imprisonment during the Reign of Terror or an abortion 
she may have had in her 20s. Napoleon ultimately chose divorce so he could remarry in search of 
an heir. In March 1810, he married Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, and a great niece 
of Marie Antoinette by proxy; thus he had married into a German royal and imperial family. 
They remained married until his death, though she did not join him in exile on Elba and 
thereafter never saw her husband again. The couple had one child, Napoleon Francis Joseph 
Charles (1811–1832), known from birth as the King of Rome. He became Napoleon II in 1814 and 
reigned for only two weeks. He was awarded the title of the Duke of Reichstadt in 1818 and 
died of tuberculosis aged 21, with no children.
His personal physician, Barry O'Meara, warned the authorities of his declining state of health 
mainly caused, according to him, by the harsh treatment of the captive in the hands of his 
"gaoler", Lowe, which led Napoleon to confine himself for months in his damp and wretched 
habitation of Longwood. O'Meara kept a clandestine correspondence with a clerk at the 
Admiralty in London, knowing his letters were read by higher authorities: he hoped, in such way, 
to raise alarm in the government, but to no avail. 
In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly, and on 3 May two British 
physicians, who had recently arrived, attended on him but could only recommend palliatives. He 
died two days later, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father 
Ange Vignali. His last words were, "France, armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine." ("France, army, 
head of the army, Joséphine.") 
Napoleon's original death mask was created around 6 May, although it is not clear which doctor 
created it. In his will, he had asked to be buried on the banks of the Seine, but the British 
governor said he should be buried on Saint Helena, in the Valley of the Willows. Hudson Lowe 
insisted the inscription should read "Napoleon Bonaparte"; Montholon and Bertrand wanted the 
Imperial title "Napoleon" as royalty were signed by their first names only. As a result the tomb 
was left nameless.
In 1840, Louis Philippe I obtained permission from the British to return Napoleon's remains to 
France. The remains were transported aboard the frigate Belle-Poule, which had been painted 
black for the occasion, and on 29 November she arrived in Cherbourg. The remains were 
transferred to the steamship Normandie, which transported them to Le Havre, up the Seine 
to Rouen and on to Paris. 
On 15 December, a state funeral was held. The hearse proceeded from the Arc de Triomphe 
down the Champs-Élysées, across the Place de la Concorde to the Esplanade des Invalides and 
then to the cupola in St Jérôme's Chapel, where it remained until the tomb designed by Louis 
Visconti was completed. In 1861, Napoleon's remains were entombed in a porphyry sarcophagus 
in the crypt under the dome at Les Invalides.
Napoleon's physician, François Carlo Antommarchi, led the autopsy, which found the cause of 
death to be stomach cancer. Antommarchi did not, however, sign the official report. Napoleon's 
father had died of stomach cancer, although this was seemingly unknown at the time of the 
autopsy. Antommarchi found evidence of a stomach ulcer; this was the most convenient 
explanation for the British, who wanted to avoid criticism over their care of Napoleon. 
In 1955, the diaries of Napoleon's valet, Louis Marchand, were published. His description of 
Napoleon in the months before his death led Sten Forshufvud in a 1961 paper in Nature to put 
forward other causes for his death, including deliberatearsenic poisoning. Arsenic was used as a 
poison during the era because it was undetectable when administered over a long period. 
Forshufvud, in a 1978 book with Ben Weider, noted that Napoleon's body was found to be 
remarkably well preserved when moved in 1840. Arsenic is a strong preservative, and therefore 
this supported the poisoning hypothesis. Forshufvud and Weider observed that Napoleon had 
attempted to quench abnormal thirst by drinking large amounts of orgeat syrup that contained 
cyanide compounds in the almonds used for flavouring. 
They maintained that the potassium tartrate used in his treatment prevented his stomach from 
expelling these compounds and that his thirst was a symptom of the poison. Their hypothesis 
was that the calomel given to Napoleon became an overdose, which killed him and left extensive 
tissue damage behind. According to a 2007 article, the type of arsenic found in Napoleon's hair 
shafts was mineral, the most toxic, and according to toxicologist Patrick Kintz, this supported 
the conclusion that he was murdered
The wallpaper used in Longwood contained a high level of arsenic compound used by British 
manufacturers as a dye. The adhesive, which in the cooler British environment was innocuous, 
may have grown mould in the more humid climate and emitted the poisonous gas arsine. This 
theory has been ruled out, as it does not explain the arsenic absorption patterns found in other 
analyses. 
There have been modern studies that have supported the original autopsy finding. In a 2008 
study, researchers analysed samples of Napoleon's hair from throughout his life, as well as 
samples from his family and other contemporaries. All samples had high levels of arsenic, 
approximately 100 times higher than the current average. According to these researchers, 
Napoleon's body was already heavily contaminated with arsenic as a boy, and the high arsenic 
concentration in his hair was not caused by intentional poisoning; people were constantly 
exposed to arsenic from glues and dyes throughout their lives. Studies published in 2007 and 
2008 dismissed evidence of arsenic poisoning, and confirmed evidence of peptic ulcer and 
gastric cancer as the cause of death.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
For this project, I have taken help of a number of resources . Some of them are: 
 Internet (Wikipedia) 
 Google Images 
 Reference Books 
I want to thank our subject teacher to give us such a knowledgeable project. I also want to 
thank my parents in helping me in a lot of way.
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Rise of napoleon

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  • 3. SL. NO. CONTENTS SLIDE NO. 1) INTRODUCTION 4 - 5 2) NAPOLEON AS EMPEROR OF FRANCE 6 - 7 3) METRIC SYSTEM 8 4) LEGACY OUTSIDE FRANCE 9 5) MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 10 - 11 6) DEATH 12 – 13 7) CAUSE OF DEATH 14 - 15 8) BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 9) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 16
  • 4. Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769 to Carlo Maria di Bonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino in his family's ancestral home, Casa Bonaparte, in the town of Ajaccio, the capital of the island of Corsica. He was their 4th child and 3rd son. This was a year after the island was transferred to France by the Republic of Genoa. He was christened Napoleon di Bonaparte, probably named after an uncle (an older brother, who did not survive infancy, was the first of the sons to be called Napoleon). In his twenties, he adopted the more French-sounding Napoleon Bonaparte. The Corsican Bonapartes were descended from minor Italian nobility of Tuscan origin, who had come to Corsica from Liguria in the 16th century. His father, Nobile Carlo Bonaparte, an attorney, was named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1777. The dominant influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, Letizia Ramolino, whose firm discipline restrained a rambunctious child. Napoleon's maternal grandmother had married into the Swiss Fesch family in her second marriage, and Napoleon's uncle, the later cardinal Joseph Fesch, would fulfill the role as protector of the Bonaparte family for some years. He had an elder brother, Joseph; and younger siblings, Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline,Caroline and Jérôme. A boy and girl were born before Joseph but died in infancy. Napoleon was baptised as a Catholic.
  • 5. Napoleon's noble, moderately affluent background and family connections afforded him greater opportunities to study than were available to a typical Corsican of the time. In January 1779, Napoleon was enrolled at a religious school in Autun, in mainland France, to learn French. In May he was admitted to a military academy at Brienne-le-Château. He always spoke with a marked Corsican accent and never learned to spell French properly. Napoleon was teased by other students for his accent and applied himself to reading. An examiner observed that Napoleon "has always been distinguished for his application in mathematics. He is fairly well acquainted with history and geography... This boy would make an excellent sailor. On completion of his studies at Brienne in 1784, Napoleon was admitted to the elite École Militaire in Paris. He trained to become an artillery officer and, when his father's death reduced his income, was forced to complete the two-year course in one year.He was the first Corsican to graduate from the École Militaire.He was examined by the famed scientist Pierre- Simon Laplace, whom Napoleon later appointed to the Senate.
  • 6. NAPOLEON AS EMPEROR OF FRANCE While in Egypt, Bonaparte stayed informed of European affairs through irregular delivery of newspapers and dispatches. He learned that France had suffered a series of defeats in the War of the Second Coalition. On 24 August 1799, he took advantage of the temporary departure of British ships from French coastal ports and set sail for France, despite the fact he had received no explicit orders from Paris.The army was left in the charge of Jean Baptiste Kléber. Unknown to Bonaparte, the Directory had sent him orders to return to ward off possible invasions of French soil, but poor lines of communication prevented the delivery of these messages. By the time he reached Paris in October, France's situation had been improved by a series of victories. The Republic was, however, bankrupt and the ineffective Directory was unpopular with the French population. The Directory discussed Bonaparte's "desertion" but was too weak to punish him. Despite the failures in Egypt, Napoleon returned to a hero's welcome. In alliance with the director Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, his brother Lucien; the speaker of the Council of Five Hundred, Roger Ducos; another Director, Joseph Fouché; and Talleyrand, he overthrew the Directory by a coup d'état on November 9, 1799 ("the 18th Brumaire" according to the revolutionary calendar), and closed down the council of five hundred. Napoleon became "first consul" for ten years, with two consuls appointed by him who had consultative voices only. His power was confirmed by the new constitution ("Constitution of the year VIII"), originally devised by Sieyès to give Napoleon a minor role, but rewritten by Napoleon, and accepted by direct popular vote (3,000,000 in favor, 1,567 opposed). The constitution preserved the appearance of a republic but in reality established a military dictatorship. The days of Brumaire sounded the end of the short-lived republic: no more representative government, assemblies, a collegial executive, or liberty.
  • 7. Napoleon faced royalist and Jacobin plots as France's ruler, including the Conspiration des poignards (Dagger plot) in October 1800 and the Plot of the Rue Saint-Nicaise (also known as the infernal machine) two months later. In January 1804, his police uncovered an assassination plot against him which involved Moreau and which was ostensibly sponsored by the Bourbon former rulers of France. On the advice of Talleyrand, Napoleon ordered the kidnapping of Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, in violation of neighbouring Baden's sovereignty. After a secret trial the Duke was executed, even though he had not been involved in the plot. Napoleon used the plot to justify the re-creation of a hereditary monarchy in France with himself as emperor. He believed a Bourbon restoration would be more difficult if the Bonapartist succession was entrenched in the constitution. Napoleon was elected as "Emperor of the French" in a plebiscite held in November. Since there would be an heir, it would also make it all but impossible to change the regime by assassinating Napoleon. As before, this vote was implausibly lopsided, with 99.93 percent officially voting yes. He was crowned by Pope Pius VII as Napoleon I, on 2 December 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris and then crowned Josephine Empress. According to legend, Napoleon seized the crown out of the hands of the pope at the last minute and crowned himself to avoid being subject to papal authority. However, this story is apocryphal; the coronation procedure had been agreed in advance. Ludwig van Beethoven, a long-time admirer, was disappointed at this turn towards imperialism and scratched his dedication to Napoleon from his 3rd Symphony.
  • 8. The official introduction of the metric system in September 1799 was unpopular in large sections of French society, and Napoleon's rule greatly aided adoption of the new standard across not only France but the French sphere of influence. Napoleon ultimately took a retrograde step in 1812 when he passed legislation to introduce the measures usuelles (traditional units of measurement) for retail trade—a system of measure that resembled the pre-revolutionary units but were based on the kilogram and the metre; for example the livre metrique (metric pound) was 500 g instead of 489.5 g—the value of the livre du roi (the king's pound). Other units of measure were rounded in a similar manner. This however laid the foundations for the definitive introduction of the metric system across Europe in the middle of the 19th century.
  • 9. Napoleon was responsible for spreading the values of the French Revolution to other countries. Napoleon provided the design for the flag of Italy on the basis of the French tricolour. The Napoleonic Code is a codification of law including civil, family and criminal law that Napoleon imposed on French-conquered territories. After the fall of Napoleon, not only was Napoleonic Code retained by such countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, but has been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec. The memory of Napoleon in Poland is highly favourable, for his support for independence and opposition to Russia, his legal code, the abolition of serfdom, and the introduction of modern middle class bureaucracies.
  • 10. Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, when he was 26; she was a 32-year-old widow whose first husband had been executed during the Revolution. Until she met Bonaparte, she had been known as "Rose", a name which he disliked. He called her "Joséphine" instead, and she went by this name henceforth. Bonaparte often sent her love letters while on his campaigns. He formally adopted her son Eugène and cousin Stéphanie and arranged dynastic marriages for them. Joséphine had her daughter Hortense marry Napoleon's brother Louis. Joséphine had lovers, including a Hussar lieutenant, Hippolyte Charles, during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Napoleon learnt the full extent of her affair with Charles while in Egypt, and a letter he wrote to his brother Joseph regarding the subject was intercepted by the British. The letter appeared in the London and Paris presses, much to Napoleon's embarrassment. Napoleon had his own affairs too: during the Egyptian campaign he took Pauline Bellisle Foures, the wife of a junior officer, as his mistress. She became known as "Cleopatra" after the Ancient Egyptian rulerJoséphine had lovers, including a Hussar lieutenant, Hippolyte Charles, during Napoleon's Italian campaign. Napoleon learnt the full extent of her affair with Charles while in Egypt, and a letter he wrote to his brother Joseph regarding the subject was intercepted by the British. The letter appeared in the London and Paris presses, much to Napoleon's embarrassment. Napoleon had his own affairs too: during the Egyptian campaign he took Pauline Bellisle Foures, the wife of a junior officer, as his mistress. She became known as "Cleopatra" after the Ancient Egyptian ruler
  • 11. While Napoleon's mistresses had children by him, Josephine did not produce an heir, possibly because of either the stresses of her imprisonment during the Reign of Terror or an abortion she may have had in her 20s. Napoleon ultimately chose divorce so he could remarry in search of an heir. In March 1810, he married Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, and a great niece of Marie Antoinette by proxy; thus he had married into a German royal and imperial family. They remained married until his death, though she did not join him in exile on Elba and thereafter never saw her husband again. The couple had one child, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (1811–1832), known from birth as the King of Rome. He became Napoleon II in 1814 and reigned for only two weeks. He was awarded the title of the Duke of Reichstadt in 1818 and died of tuberculosis aged 21, with no children.
  • 12. His personal physician, Barry O'Meara, warned the authorities of his declining state of health mainly caused, according to him, by the harsh treatment of the captive in the hands of his "gaoler", Lowe, which led Napoleon to confine himself for months in his damp and wretched habitation of Longwood. O'Meara kept a clandestine correspondence with a clerk at the Admiralty in London, knowing his letters were read by higher authorities: he hoped, in such way, to raise alarm in the government, but to no avail. In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly, and on 3 May two British physicians, who had recently arrived, attended on him but could only recommend palliatives. He died two days later, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father Ange Vignali. His last words were, "France, armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine." ("France, army, head of the army, Joséphine.") Napoleon's original death mask was created around 6 May, although it is not clear which doctor created it. In his will, he had asked to be buried on the banks of the Seine, but the British governor said he should be buried on Saint Helena, in the Valley of the Willows. Hudson Lowe insisted the inscription should read "Napoleon Bonaparte"; Montholon and Bertrand wanted the Imperial title "Napoleon" as royalty were signed by their first names only. As a result the tomb was left nameless.
  • 13. In 1840, Louis Philippe I obtained permission from the British to return Napoleon's remains to France. The remains were transported aboard the frigate Belle-Poule, which had been painted black for the occasion, and on 29 November she arrived in Cherbourg. The remains were transferred to the steamship Normandie, which transported them to Le Havre, up the Seine to Rouen and on to Paris. On 15 December, a state funeral was held. The hearse proceeded from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs-Élysées, across the Place de la Concorde to the Esplanade des Invalides and then to the cupola in St Jérôme's Chapel, where it remained until the tomb designed by Louis Visconti was completed. In 1861, Napoleon's remains were entombed in a porphyry sarcophagus in the crypt under the dome at Les Invalides.
  • 14. Napoleon's physician, François Carlo Antommarchi, led the autopsy, which found the cause of death to be stomach cancer. Antommarchi did not, however, sign the official report. Napoleon's father had died of stomach cancer, although this was seemingly unknown at the time of the autopsy. Antommarchi found evidence of a stomach ulcer; this was the most convenient explanation for the British, who wanted to avoid criticism over their care of Napoleon. In 1955, the diaries of Napoleon's valet, Louis Marchand, were published. His description of Napoleon in the months before his death led Sten Forshufvud in a 1961 paper in Nature to put forward other causes for his death, including deliberatearsenic poisoning. Arsenic was used as a poison during the era because it was undetectable when administered over a long period. Forshufvud, in a 1978 book with Ben Weider, noted that Napoleon's body was found to be remarkably well preserved when moved in 1840. Arsenic is a strong preservative, and therefore this supported the poisoning hypothesis. Forshufvud and Weider observed that Napoleon had attempted to quench abnormal thirst by drinking large amounts of orgeat syrup that contained cyanide compounds in the almonds used for flavouring. They maintained that the potassium tartrate used in his treatment prevented his stomach from expelling these compounds and that his thirst was a symptom of the poison. Their hypothesis was that the calomel given to Napoleon became an overdose, which killed him and left extensive tissue damage behind. According to a 2007 article, the type of arsenic found in Napoleon's hair shafts was mineral, the most toxic, and according to toxicologist Patrick Kintz, this supported the conclusion that he was murdered
  • 15. The wallpaper used in Longwood contained a high level of arsenic compound used by British manufacturers as a dye. The adhesive, which in the cooler British environment was innocuous, may have grown mould in the more humid climate and emitted the poisonous gas arsine. This theory has been ruled out, as it does not explain the arsenic absorption patterns found in other analyses. There have been modern studies that have supported the original autopsy finding. In a 2008 study, researchers analysed samples of Napoleon's hair from throughout his life, as well as samples from his family and other contemporaries. All samples had high levels of arsenic, approximately 100 times higher than the current average. According to these researchers, Napoleon's body was already heavily contaminated with arsenic as a boy, and the high arsenic concentration in his hair was not caused by intentional poisoning; people were constantly exposed to arsenic from glues and dyes throughout their lives. Studies published in 2007 and 2008 dismissed evidence of arsenic poisoning, and confirmed evidence of peptic ulcer and gastric cancer as the cause of death.
  • 16. BIBLIOGRAPHY For this project, I have taken help of a number of resources . Some of them are:  Internet (Wikipedia)  Google Images  Reference Books I want to thank our subject teacher to give us such a knowledgeable project. I also want to thank my parents in helping me in a lot of way.