Napoleon Bonaparte at Longwood House. The last supper of the former French Emperor was prepared, as always, by his cook
What the last consisted of dinner of Napoleon Bonaparte before he died on May 5, 1821 ?
In the total solitude of Longwood House, the residence of Sant’Elena , the ex general, now abandoned by everyone and largely forgotten, ate a meal consisting of liver and ribs with bacon, kidney sautéed in port, eggs with cream and garlic bread with roasted tomatoes , all prepared by the skilled hands of the cook at his disposal.
A menu perhaps not too suitable for a man who at only 52 years old looked much older and who had long been devoured by excruciating stomach pain that gave him no respite.
Various hypotheses have been put forward on the cause of the pathology that for a long time afflicted Napoleon, from cancer to a congenital disorder to poison, without ever reaching any certainty, but whether such a diet, certainly neither too light nor too healthy , had ended up aggravating the ex problem Emperor of the French? .