Napoleon's casket opened in 1840

Autor:

Nicolas Eustache Maurin

Credit:

http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/weider/c_assassination_w.html

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https://plwiki.pl/b/1edaa

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Opis:

The opening of Napoleon’s casket on St. Helena in October 1840, by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin

Nineteen years after Napoleon's death and entombment at St. Helena, his casket was opened to identify Napoleon before returning the body to France as the Emperor desired. Former attendants present, aged by nearly two decades, were astonished to see that the Emperor's body was almost perfectly preserved. Arsenic has checked the processes of decay in the triply enclosed and sealed coffin.

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