Word: montholon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientist, Hamilton Smith, thinks he has proved it: he subjected samples of Napoleon's hair to nuclear bombardment in Britain's Harwell reactors and found arsenic! Only, being an Englishman, he says that his associates believe it was Napoleon's French chamberlain, General Charles-Tristan de Montholon, who poisoned the Emperor. French historians hooted down the theory as so much old lace. The hairs were fakes. And anyway, sneered a scholar in Napoleon's native Corsica: "It would be unthinkable to trouble the remains of the Emperor, even to clear the English of the blame...
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