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.