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Article: Historian Wants Napoleon DNA Test
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- August 17, 2002
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PARIS (AP) _ For decades, the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte has been
debated and studied. Now a French historian is locked in an uphill
battle against the government over a DNA test he says could end the
doubts.
Historian Bruno Roy-Henry believes British authorities may have removed
Napoleon's remains before his coffin was returned to France in 1840
_ and that the body under the gilded dome of Les Invalides is that
of another man.
But France's Defense Ministry has refused, at least for now, to allow
a DNA test, which Roy-Henry contends would put an end to all questions
about the identity of the body in Napoleon's Tomb.
"I have a feeling that the ...