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Napoleon was definitely poisoned. And many people duck and dive around this topic. The notion of wallpaper is one idea. But lead paint on the plates is another. The big problem with these lines of thinking is: If the wall paper or anything else killed Napoleon, then why didn't it kill everyone else? Why only him? Also, in his will, written 3 weeks before he died he wrote: "I die before my time, murdered by the English oligarchy and its assassin." The British wanted him gone. He was the most talented and dangerous man on the planet. But scientists have been forced to dig into this topic since the 1980s when some of Napoleon's hair was tested and found to contain arsenic. Arsenic poisoning was also NOT DETECTABLE until the 1850s when the French made the breakthrough. People were being murdered with arsenic long before then, and it was 100% possible to get away with it. Theories of British assassination plots could be less realistic than one of the most everyday substances in the 19th Century home—the wallpaper. But why the wallpaper?


With greater illumination, darker shades became fashionable—with green being a great favourite... Scheele's green (copper arsenite) was discovered in 1778 by Karl Scheele, a Swedish chemist. Like the IKEA home furnishings of today, it was cheap and vibrant in colour and became extremely popular in the manufacture of a wide range of home goods in homes of all levels of wealth. In 'Deadly Décor', Haslam explains that "suspicions regarding the safety of such arsenic wallpaper date back as far as 1839, when Leopold Gmelin, a famous German chemist, noted that damp rooms with green wallpaper often possessed a mouse-like odour, which he attributed to the production of dimethyl arsenic acid within the wallpaper... it slowly became clear that not only arsenic dust from inferior wallpapers, but also arsenic fumes—released due to warm, damp conditions—were leading to breathing difficulties and in some cases death.


Leopold Gmelin, a famous German chemist, noted that damp rooms with green wallpaper often possessed a mouse-like odour, which he attributed to the production of dimethyl arsenic acid within the wallpaper... it slowly became clear that not only arsenic dust from inferior wallpapers, but also arsenic fumes—released due to warm, damp conditions—were leading to breathing difficulties and in some cases death... So anyone complaining of headaches, fatigue, chest complaints and nausea (symptoms of arsenic poisoning) would be enclosed in their green bedroom to recover... "it was not until Henry Letheby, a public health officer at the time, discovered that the children's bedroom had recently been papered with green wallpaper that the true cause of death was discovered. His examination of the paper found that it contained three grains per square foot of arsenic; a lethal dose". A sample of the paper had been secured by a visitor to the site in the 1820s and tucked into a family scrapbook. It surfaced in Norfolk, England, in the 1980s and, when tested by British scientists in the 1990s, was found to contain arsenic. According to the American Museum of Natural History, "other evidence suggests that Napoleon's exposure to arsenic was likely life-long. In 2008, an Italian team widened the inquiry by testing not only strands of Napoleon's hair from four points in his life— ... All samples were found to have similarly high arsenic levels, roughly 100 times that of living people...