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France… Tête d'armée” . Historiography, and especially Napoleonic hagiography, will indicate that they were the last words spoken by the Emperor during the last moments of his agony on the afternoon of May , Certainly the man who would be remembered not for forging an empire out of dictatorship military that followed the coup d'état of Brumaire, the consulate, but to definitively establish part of the advances derived from the Revolution, and establish from them the political, administrative, economic and even cultural structure of modern France, He knew perfectly well that the revaluation of his figure and his legacy involved making the most of his captivity in Saint Helena , thus ensuring that the British Government's decision to declare him a prisoner on July , was part of the creation of his legend. Napoleon, despite attempts to organize his escape, was aware of his fate: “[…] it is written in the stars that I will die here. In America they will kill me or I would forget.
Only my martyrdom can save my dynasty. This is the reason why I prefer to continue in Saint Helena.” After the first years of confinement during which he dictated the reflections that would be collected by BTC Users Number Data Count Emmanuel de Las Cases (-) in the Mémorial de Sainte Hélène , the starting point of the mythification of captivity after its publication in , great Part of the Emperor's first companions left the island for various reasons , reducing the number of faithful to a handful of servants: Count Charles-Tristan de Montholon (-) and his wife Albine de Vassal (-), considered Napoleon's last lover and whom her husband would divorce in after his return to France; General Henri-Gatien Bertrand (-) and his wife Élisabeth-Françoise Dillon, known as Fanny; and the Corsican doctor.
François Antommarchi (-), the last doctor who cared for the Emperor, who arrived on the island at the request of his mother, Letizia Ramolino (-), but with whom the patient did not manage to establish a relationship. good relationship. A fragile health Health problems would worsen during , derived from what would later be officially considered liver cancer , a disease that Napoleon considered hereditary as it was the cause of the death of his father Carlo Buonaparte (-) and for which He recommended that his doctor perform an autopsy in order to inform and prevent his son, l'Aiglon , confined to the court of Vienna with the title of Duke of Reichstadt (-) and whom he would not see again after the start of the French campaign in However – and aside from conspiracy theories – it was chronic hepatitis combined with a stomach ulcer and incorrect medication to treat both.
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