Obsession With Cologne May Have Caused Napoleon's Death!
Published May 10th, 2021 - 12:47 GMT
Napoleon Bonaparte (Twitter)
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'What they have missed is the huge volumes of cologne that Napoleon smothered on his body.'
Napoleon Bonaparte — hero of the French Revolution and twice emperor of France — may have been killed by his extreme obsession with cologne, a study has claimed.
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The former leader died on May 5, 1821 on the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena, where he had been in exile for six years following his surrender to the British navy.
While autopsy cited the cause of his death as stomach cancer, conspiracy theories abound — from poisoning at the hands of his captors or his arsenic-dyed wallpaper.