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                                      The Murder of Napoleon Bonaparte


                     Napoleon Bonaparte                  Count Montholon
                     Was this man his victim?          Was this man guilty of murder?

            In recent years, it has been discovered that Napoleon Bonaparte did not die a natural death after all, as the English said he did at the time, which was on May 5th, 1821, on the tiny island of Elba. He died of a stomach ulcer, they insisted. However, modern forensic techniques have analyzed locks of his hair which came from several different sources, and they all showed the same results - arsenic poisoning.
            In their very excellent book,  THE MURDER OF NAPOLEON, by Ben Weider and David Hapgood,  it is explained exactly what happened. I highly recommend this book - it is fascinating reading!  According to their well thought out and documented theory, Weider and Hapgood pin the blame on Napoleon's friend and valet the Duke of Montholon. There were only a very limited amount of people on that tiny island with Napoleon  at the time, who could have had access to him on a continual basis.
            Add to that the fact that his doctors and valets kept exacting diaries of his last days,  and a picture does begin to emerge of the agonies he suffered before he died. He was given arsenic in his wine over a lengthly period of time, and also given a tartar emetic for a long period of time. The tartar emetic weakened his stomach, and it became corroded and unable to expel poisons. (This is no doubt what the autopsy of the day showed, they mistook it for a stomach ulcer) Then, the final coup was administered with Orgeat and Calomel, two perfectly harmless substances when taken separately, but lethal when taken together in a stomach unable to expel them.  Napoleon Bonaparte, scourge of Europe or not, died a horrible death on May 5th
1821, and it was murder.
     Nostradamus saw, and foretold the end of Napoleon Bonaparte in this way:
    
                                    Napoleon I on his deathbed

        2-47 The Grand old enemy mourning,  he will die of poison.
        The Sovereigns will be subjugated in infinite numbers.
        Stones raining, hidden under the fleece,
        Through death, articles are cited in vain.

            The only person to "subjugate the sovereigns in infinite numbers" since the prophecies were written, was Napoleon Bonaparte. Line 2, the "stones raining"  - I am not certain what that refers to, but somehow it connects with the French
monarchy, because in another verse he has called Marie Antoinette the "white stone".
            The "Fleece" he refers to in this line would indicate the return of the monarchy and their thick heads of long hair, wigs, fleece, etc.
            In the last line, Nostradamus sees Napoleon complaining bitterly that he was betrayed and tricked - he was promised that he would be sent into exile in England, instead he was sent to into exile on a remote little island. This very remoteness
allowed his murderer to carry out his foul deed where no eyes could watch him.

                       Voyage to St. Helena

        6-89 Feet and hands tied, between two boats,
        His face anointed with honey and sustained with milk,
        Wasps and flies, paternal love will be vexed,
        His cup bearer will lie, and he will try the Chalice.

            Line 1,  "between two boats" - here Nostradamus indicates that Napoleon was taken captive twice, on two different boats. Once they took him to the island of St. Elba, from which he subsequently escaped, and when he was recaptured, they took him again by boat, to the island of St. Helena.
            Line 2 refers to the fact that he was a crowned head, for these words are part of the coronation service.  This Napoleon certainly was, because he had been consecrated as Emperor of the French by the Pontiff Pius VII's own hand.
            Line 3  - refers to an ancient form of torture meted out to prisoners, they were put between two troughs called "boats", and their bodies dabbed with honey, so that wasps and bees could torment them to death. I think it is also refers indirectly to the Napoleonic Bees, on Napoleon's coat of arms.
            Line 4  - did Nostradamus see how unhappy Napoleon was about loosing his only son?  He thought of little else, in his captivity, according to sources of the time.  His son, the little "King of Rome" was taken off to be raised by the Austrians, and he too, ended up dying in mysterious circumstances, also foretold by Nostradamus. Line 4 - says very clearly that the murderer was his cup bearer, or valet.

        8-82 Corroding long, unfeeling, deed of the good valet.
        In the end, he will have only his leave.
        Keen poison, and letters in his collar,
        Seized, escaping into danger.

            Note that in the numbering of this quatrain 8-82, we are given two digits of the date 1821 on which this event occurred. Line 1 indicates that  Napoleon was poisoned in the fashion that Weider and Hapgood describe.  A long and painful
death, administered by his good friend and trusted companion the Duke of Montholon.  It would be likely that Montholon was given his directions from much higher up, either the English, the French or the Austrians.  All of them would  rest
easier knowing  that Napoleon would never escape again. The day Napoleon escaped from Elba his fate was sealed. Someone paid Montholon to accompany Napoleon to St Helena and to there poison him. This is what Nostradamus says in the last line - Napoleon will escape, but only to be caught again and sent into further danger.
            Line 3 - "letters in his collar"  - a common way in those days to transport secret letters, hidden in the lining of clothing, although it is unclear just who is doing the secreting. Napoleon did manage to slip notes to his wife Maria Lousia past the guards. Line 4 - this is unclear, I do not know what happened to the Duke of Montholon in the end. He disappeared into obscurity. Napoleon's last wish, was that he be buried in the country that he loved, France.  It did happen - 19 years later, his body was exhumed and returned to France for burial there. Not so strangely, it was in a state of  perfect preservation.  Museums often use arsenic to preserve living flesh, it is said...


          Duke of Reichstadt
        The Murder of the Duke of Reichstadt, July 22, 1832

            The "King of  Rome", as he was so styled at his birth on March 20, 1811, was the only son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Maria Louisa of Austria.  His mother happened to be the daughter of the emperor Francis of Austria, Napoleon's
father-in-law, but also his mortal enemy on the field of battle.
            During the Napoleonic wars, Maria Louisia must have been in a curious position, as she watched the dramas unfold between her father and her husband.  Her father did everything in his power to get his daughter out of the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte, including such strategies as sending the Count Neipperg to seduce her. Amazingly, this worked, and as soon as Napoleon was sent off to St. Helena, Maria Louisia was involved in an affair with this notorious one eyed general of the Austrian empire. Before her husband was even dead on his lonely island, she had two children by this Count.
            As for her son with Napoleon, his grandfather quickly shuffled the boy away to be raised in the castle in Austria. He knew only too well, the danger of raising a son of Bonaparte.  He knew the Bonapartists all over France would assume
this boy to be their rightful emperor, and as soon as he was of age, they would do everything they could to make it so - This was a risk that the Emperor Francis was not willing to take.
            Firstly, he separated the son from the mother, this was easy enough to do, he granted his daughter the Duchy of  Parma, if she would just go and live there, but she was to leave her son with him. Maria Louisa happily agreed, and was
quickly out of the picture. Next, the Emperor renamed his grandson, gave him a good Austrian name, Francis, the Duke of Reichstadt. He isolated the boy, and took away everything that was French, including his language. Napoleon's son spent his
boyhood years being brainwashed to hate the French monster who was his father.
            But, stubbornly, the boy secretly and steadfastly held on to whatever he could. All did not work out the way the Emperor hoped. The son of Napoleon grew up one day, and began to question his real heritage. He began to question what really happened to his father, and why his mother had abandoned him. The fact that his mother cared nothing for him hurt him above all else.  How much did he find out about the death of his father Napoleon, and who was really responsible? He must
have started to make life very uncomfortable for Francis, the Emperor of Austria.
            The Duke of Reichstadt died on July 22, 1832, a death suspiciously similar to his father's.  He was 21 years and 9 months old.  He died of a wasting sickness -Perhaps it was T.B., perhaps it was poison.   Nostradamus says this of the young Duke of Reichstadt:

        4-87 A King's son, learned in many languages,
        From his Senior in the reign, very different.
        The Father in law will be understood by the greater son,
        And he will cause the principal adherent to perish.

            Line 1 is talking about the Duke of Reichstadt, and refers to the fact that he speaks a different language (French) than his senior in the reign, meaning  his grandfather, the Emperor Francis.
            Line 2, the Father in law is the Emperor Francis  (father in law of Napoleon), and the greater son is the son of  Napoleon - i.e.  the Duke of Reichstadt will "understand something" about his grandfather, that has to do with the death of his father.
            Line 3, Francis the Austrian emperor will cause to perish, the principal adherent of  Napoleon Bonaparte - his son. The boy was getting too politically dangerous for him, it was as simple as that.


               Death of the Duke of Reichstadt July 22, 1832

        4-7 The young son of the great and hated prince
        at the age of 20 will have a great touch of leprosy
        He will die of grief for his mother, very sad and emaciated,
        And he will die where the loose flesh falls.

            Napoleon's son died on July 22 1832, very sad and emaciated, as the prophecy indicates. He was 21 years old, and had been in steadily deteriorating health for the past year of his life.  As he lay dying on his deathbed, he called for his mother, who would not come. It is reported that he remarked bitterly to his friend Count Anton Prokesch Von Osten, "If Josephine had been my mother, I should not be in the miserable situation in which I find myself today."
            Line 4 is unclear, but it has something to do with the place where the young Duke died - in the same room that his beloved father Napoleon slept so contentedly after having taken Vienna in 1809.


                Napoleon welcoming his son to heaven

        8-75 The Father and Son will both be murdered,
        The Count within his pavilion.
        The mother at Tours will have her belly swelling with a son
        Hidden, will be the harsh words on tiny pieces of paper.

            Lines 1 and 2  seem to say that both Napoleon and his son will be murdered by a count.   Line 3 is interesting in that Maria Louisa was delivered of a son by her lover Count Neipperg on August 8, 1819, this was several years before her husband Napoleon died in 1821. She also had a daughter by this same man on May 1 1817.  It is not known if she was in Tours during her pregnancy, but she could well have been.
            Line 4 - The harsh words on the tiny pieces of paper. These letters, I am sure, would be the little notes that Napoleon had managed to smuggle out of his island prison to his wife.
            Maria Louisa ignored all his pleas and chastisements to her, and refused to even tell him how his son was doing - not that she even knew herself. Interesting also, is the French word Nostradamus has used for the tiny pieces of
paper - papillon, this is a play on the word Napoleon.  The french word verdure that he has used for harshness, could also indicate the "harshness of wine", another play on what the harsh wine that was killing her husband Napoleon at the time.
            Napoleon ordered his heart to be embalmed when he died, and sent to his wife - she refused to accept that final token of his esteem as well.

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