--- Ian Murray <seamus2001 at home.com> wrote: > POSTED AT 8:12 AM EDT Sunday,
June 03
>
> Napoleon's complex death
>
> Reuters News Agency
>
>
> Paris - French scientists presented new findings Friday that they say
> prove Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic, reinforcing the
> controversial theory that the emperor was murdered by French and
> British conspirators.
>
My knowledge of the subject comes only from the "Daily Mirror Book of Fascinating Facts", which I used to read avidly as a twelve-year-old, but I thought it was the orthodox theory on Napoleon that he died from arsenic poisoning from the wallpaper in his room.
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===== ... in countries which do not enjoy Mediterranean sunshine idleness is more difficult, and a great public propaganda will be required to inaugurate it. -- Bertrand Russell
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