No one's sure how Napoleon died. |
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The physicians who performed Napoleon's autopsy in 1821 concluded that he had died, much less suspiciously, of stomach cancer exacerbated by bleeding ulcers. This stands to reason, as he was treated with a heavy dose of calomel — a compound thought to be medicinal at the time that actually contained mercury — the day before he died. Uncertainty remains, however, as do speculation and even conspiracy theories that have only added to the aura of France's most legendary ruler. | |
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A silent film made about Napoleon required three screens. | ||||||||||||||
There are epics, and then there's Napoléon. Directed by Abel Gance and released in 1927, the silent film is perhaps most famous for a triptych sequence that required three screens to properly project. Fearing that one screen simply wasn't expansive enough to contain his vision, Gance — a pioneer of the silent era also revered for his movies J'accuse (1919) and La Roue (1923) — placed three cameras next to each other for the final climactic sequence. This technique was dubbed "polyvision" by French film critic Émile Vuillermoz and is partly responsible for Napoléon's mystique. The other part is that the film has been hard to see for most of its nearly century-long existence. The original cut was four hours and 10 minutes long, while Gance's own "version définitive" was nine hours and 22 minutes; the most recent restoration, which took 16 years to complete, is more than seven hours long and will premiere in Paris in 2024. | ||||||||||||||
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