I am writing in response to Paolo Bernardini’s recent call for a public debate over the presence of the Napoleon death mask in Mugar Memorial Library (“Is Mugar the place for a tyrant’s death mask?” ...
This death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte is a plaster cast painted gold. It was created for the United States National Museum in 1904 from a copy of the death mask that Lieutenant John W. Timmons, U.S.N.
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How did Napoleon die? Inside the French emperor’s mysterious demise
On May 5, 1821, former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile after suffering from a mysterious illness for weeks.
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