Napoleon's trousers from before his internment on St Helena suggest he had a waist measurement of 110cm; those he wore just before his death measured 98cm.
This, say Swiss researchers, indicate he did, in fact, die of stomach cancer and not arsenic poisoning.
Couldn't it also indicate he went from being the Emperor of FRANCE (the land of cheese and wine), surrounded by staff to wait on his every need, to being the prisoner of a psychotic warden on an island in the middle of nowhere, where he tended a garden? Wouldn't someone, under this change of conditions, normally lose a few kilograms?
Friday, May 06, 2005
There was a doco along these lines on The History Channel... might have been Friday night. It's a very interesting idea.
Posted by: Rob Irwin | Sunday, May 08, 2005 at 10:03 PM