Obsession With Cologne May Have Caused Napoleon s Death! Published May 10th, 2021 - 12:47 GMT
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Highlights 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St Helena on May 5, 1821
While his autopsy cited stomach cancer as the cause, other theories abound
Some argued his death had been faked, while others said he had been poisoned
Now, 200 years later, biomedical scientist Parvez Haris has an different theory
The ex-emperor accidentally poisoned himself with an overdose of essential oils
This, he says, explains much of Napoleon s deteriorating health in his final years
The military genius would use some 50 bottles of Eau de Cologne each month