NAPOLEON’S HEART
Louis XIV was not the only celebrity, it sems, whose heart went astray literally and posthumously (observes an “livening Standard” writer). There is a grim little story in the “Life of Sir Arthur Sullivan,” recently published, of how the composer’s grandfather, a sergeant in Napoleon’s guard at St. Helena, used to tell that when Napoleon was being embalmed the Emperor’s heart, which had been taken from his body, was carried off by rats, and only recovered just as it was being dragged under the wainscoting of the death-cham-ber. This was, I believe, endorsed by Napoleon’s doctor at St. Helena, Dr. Arnott, who survived to an extreme old age near Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. There are people still living to whom Dr. Arnott used to recount the gruesome details.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 10
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128NAPOLEON’S HEART Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 10
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