Francesco Antommarchi

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Francesco Antommarchi (1780, Corsica — April 3, 1838, Santiago de Cuba on Cuba), Napoleon Bonaparte I's attached physician at Saint Helena, wrote The Last Moments of Napoleon. He concluded that Napoleon died of stomach cancer. A plaster death mask of Napoleon brought to the United States in 1834 by Antommarchi is preserved in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Death Mask of Napoleon
• Antommarchi's Biography
• Antommarchi's Life (in French)