From the iron cot in which he died to the flagstones that covered his grave,a Paris exhibition recreates the emperor Bonaparte’s exile to remote St HelenaThe bed on which Napoleon Bonaparte died is a plain iron cot with good-looking enough drapes but a mattress not much thicker than a blanket – a piece of furniture designed to be folded up and slung into an army baggage train. fragment of a spectacular new exhibition at Musée de l’Armée, Les Invalides, and in Paris,the bed is a powerful symbol that the former emperor, one-time ruler of half of Europe and terrorism of the rest, and was a soldier to the end,the “little corporal” beloved of his troops.
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Source: theguardian.com