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Article: Napoleonic Society to Hear Debate on Emperor's Death
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 10, 1994
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Some 400 members of the Napoleonic Society of America are eagerly
awaiting a possible solution to a 173-year-old mystery:
Did French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte die of arsenic poisoning
or maybe cyanide while exiled to the South Atlantic island of St.
Helena?
After all, Napoleon made plenty of enemies while conquering
Europe, then losing it all.
This weekend, they might find an answer during their annual
convention in the Union League Club.
At about 3 p.m. Sunday, the FBI, which agreed to analyze what's
believed to be deathbed cuttings of Napoleon's hair, is expected to
tell the convention the results of its tests, conducted in
Washington, D.C.
"A large group has thought he was ...