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Adalberto Piazzoli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The medical mystery of Napoleon Bonaparte: an interdisciplinary exposé.
Advances in anatomic pathology, 2011Co-Authors: Alessandro Lugli, Massimiliano Clemenza, Philip E. Corso, Jacques Di Costanzo, Richard Dirnhofer, Ettore Fiorini, Costanza Herborg, John Thomas Hindmarsh, E. Orvini, Adalberto PiazzoliAbstract:Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 to 1821) is one of the most studied historical figures in European history. Not surprisingly, amongst the many mysteries still surrounding his person is the cause of his death, and particularly the suspicion that he was poisoned, continue to intrigue medical historians. After the defeat of the Napoleonic Army at the battle of Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died 6 years later. Although his personal physician, Dr Francois Carlo Antommarchi, stated in his autopsy report that stomach cancer was the cause of death, this diagnosis was challenged in 1961 by the finding of an elevated arsenic concentration in one of Napoleon's hair samples. At that time it was suggested that Napoleon had been poisoned by one of his companions in exile who was allegedly supported by the British Government. Since then Napoleon's cause of death continues to be a topic of debate. The aim of this review is to use a multidisciplinary approach to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Napoleon's cause of death.
Roger Price - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Turn Towards Counter-Revolution
The Church and the State in France 1789-1870, 2017Co-Authors: Roger PriceAbstract:A turn towards counter-revolution followed the bloody revolutionary insurrection in Paris in June. ‘Social fear’ encouraged clerical and Catholic support for the presidential candidacy of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, political repression, and military intervention in Rome in support of the embattled Pope Pius IX, as well as for the Falloux education law and ultimately for the coup-d’etat mounted by Bonaparte on 2 December 1851—further evidence of the political opportunism of the clergy and Catholic elites.
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Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: ‘hero' or ‘grotesque mediocrity'?
2002Co-Authors: Roger PriceAbstract:Price, Roger. 'Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte: ‘hero' or ‘grotesque mediocrity'?', In: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire: (post) modern interpretations (London: Pluto Press, 2002), pp.145-162 RAE2008
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Napoleon III and the Second Empire
1997Co-Authors: Roger PriceAbstract:In Napoleon III and the Second Empire, Roger D. Price considers the mid-century crisis which provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with the opportunity to gain elective office as President. The author outlines the objectives of Napoleon III and provides: * A historiographical review of the ruler and his regime * Details of changing historical attitudes to the period * A survey of Napoleon III's economic, social and political impact * An outline of the man's reign and his achievements
Alessandro Lugli - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The medical mystery of Napoleon Bonaparte: an interdisciplinary exposé.
Advances in anatomic pathology, 2011Co-Authors: Alessandro Lugli, Massimiliano Clemenza, Philip E. Corso, Jacques Di Costanzo, Richard Dirnhofer, Ettore Fiorini, Costanza Herborg, John Thomas Hindmarsh, E. Orvini, Adalberto PiazzoliAbstract:Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 to 1821) is one of the most studied historical figures in European history. Not surprisingly, amongst the many mysteries still surrounding his person is the cause of his death, and particularly the suspicion that he was poisoned, continue to intrigue medical historians. After the defeat of the Napoleonic Army at the battle of Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died 6 years later. Although his personal physician, Dr Francois Carlo Antommarchi, stated in his autopsy report that stomach cancer was the cause of death, this diagnosis was challenged in 1961 by the finding of an elevated arsenic concentration in one of Napoleon's hair samples. At that time it was suggested that Napoleon had been poisoned by one of his companions in exile who was allegedly supported by the British Government. Since then Napoleon's cause of death continues to be a topic of debate. The aim of this review is to use a multidisciplinary approach to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Napoleon's cause of death.
Michael A. Pesenson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Napoleon Bonaparte and apocalyptic discourse in early nineteenth century russia
The Russian Review, 2006Co-Authors: Michael A. PesensonAbstract:Leo Tolstoy's great epic novel War and Peace begins in 1805 with an ominous salon conversation in which Napoleon Bonaparte is likened to the Antichrist for his increasingly expansionist policies in Europe.' Later in the book, with the French emperor already on Russian soil and threatening Moscow itself, Pierre Bezukhov discovers a Masonic tract, which attempts to discern in Napoleon's name and title the sign of the Beast of the Apocalypse-666 and in the year 1812 the limit of his power. Excited and agitated by his discovery, Pierre tries to figure out his own role in the apocalyptic drama, imagines himself to be the emperor's worthy opponent, and naively sets out to destroy Napoleon and thus save the world from the enemy he regards as the Antichrist.2 It is this wellknown episode from Tolstoy's novel recounting Pierre's cosmological speculations that is perhaps most familiar to readers confronted with the topic of this article. Yet the identification of Napoleon with the Antichrist, as well as a general sense of apocalyptic foreboding associated with the Napoleonic Wars was evident throughout Europe (as well as the newly independent United States) during the emperor's meteoric rise to power and during the height of his military conquests, with Russia being no exception.3 Moreover, as the lone major continental power still free of French domination, Russia (led by its increasingly pious and mystically inclined Emperor Alexander I) was expected by many
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Napoleon Bonaparte and Apocalyptic Discourse in Early Nineteenth‐Century Russia
Russian Review, 2006Co-Authors: Michael A. PesensonAbstract:Leo Tolstoy's great epic novel War and Peace begins in 1805 with an ominous salon conversation in which Napoleon Bonaparte is likened to the Antichrist for his increasingly expansionist policies in Europe.' Later in the book, with the French emperor already on Russian soil and threatening Moscow itself, Pierre Bezukhov discovers a Masonic tract, which attempts to discern in Napoleon's name and title the sign of the Beast of the Apocalypse-666 and in the year 1812 the limit of his power. Excited and agitated by his discovery, Pierre tries to figure out his own role in the apocalyptic drama, imagines himself to be the emperor's worthy opponent, and naively sets out to destroy Napoleon and thus save the world from the enemy he regards as the Antichrist.2 It is this wellknown episode from Tolstoy's novel recounting Pierre's cosmological speculations that is perhaps most familiar to readers confronted with the topic of this article. Yet the identification of Napoleon with the Antichrist, as well as a general sense of apocalyptic foreboding associated with the Napoleonic Wars was evident throughout Europe (as well as the newly independent United States) during the emperor's meteoric rise to power and during the height of his military conquests, with Russia being no exception.3 Moreover, as the lone major continental power still free of French domination, Russia (led by its increasingly pious and mystically inclined Emperor Alexander I) was expected by many
Le T. Phung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Genes and Enzymes Involved in Bacterial Oxidation and Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2005Co-Authors: Simon Silver, Le T. PhungAbstract:The human use of toxic heavy metals is here to stay. In addition to intentional poisoning with arsenic ([40][1]) (arsenic levels in the hair of Napoleon Bonaparte approached 40 ppm, more than 1,000 times above allowable levels), medical, agricultural, and industrial uses of arsenic present major
