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A medical report for Napoleon which reveals he spent his final years living in agony while in exile on the island of St Helena has come to light 203 years later. Notes from his Irish surgeon Barry O’Meara describe the French Emperor as being ‘tormented’ by toothache on the South Atlantic outpost. It discloses that … Read more
Joaquin Phoenix set to play Napoleon Bonaparte in Kitbag for director Ridley Scott By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 00:07 BST, 15 October 2020 | Updated: 00:14 BST, 15 October 2020 With Ridley Scott wrapping production on The Last Duel on Wednesday, the filmmaker has set up another project with Joaquin Phoenix. Phoenix and Scott … Read more
Napoleon III ‘should be part of the post-Brexit deal’: French historians want their last monarch to be returned from tomb in a Hampshire church Napoleon III was laid to rest in a tomb in a church in Farnborough in 1873 French historians are hoping to have his remains repatriated in post-Brexit deal Dimitri Casali says return of … Read more