Vignali convinced the Emperor to perform a Quarantine or religious observance of 40 hours. Napoleon admitted Vignali to see him and was lucid about his forthcoming demise. The Emperor suggested the cleric Vignali as a replacement and once again refused the offer of Bertrand and his wife to watch over his bedside. Montholon fell ill and confessed he could no longer watch over Napoleon. The presence in one of the volumes of the fateful word “Empereur” (written in by Ali) led governor Lowe to have the volumes sent back and to remove the Ordnance Officer Engelbert Lutyens from Longwood for having received it. The doctors – Antommarchi had resumed his service – found him weak, the insomnia, the enemas, and the pain having exhausted him.Īs a result of a conversation with Arnott about the Duke of Marlborough, Napoleon gave a 3-volume set of Coxe’s Memoirs of John, Duke of Malborough (published in 1819) to the 20 th regiment. In the afternoon, the Emperor locked himself away with Montholon to dictate his will, a meeting from which Bertrand was excluded. Napoleon agreed to the Corsican’s visits. In the morning, after Arnott’s visit, the Grand Marshal pleaded Antommarchi’s cause. The Emperor ate a “Bavaroise”, which he vomited several hours later. Antommarchi went straight to the governor to ask to be allowed to go back to Europe.Īrnott visited Napoleon several times. Napoleon then furiously attacked the countess Bertrand calling her a whore, claiming (falsely) that she was Antommarchi’s mistress, as she had been Gourgaud’s before! On Antommarchi’s departure, he also attacked the Grand Marshal. Napoleon harshly upbraided Antommarchi for not being appropriately dedicated to his task, not being devoted enough, saying that he would bequeath him “a rope to hang himself with”. The repeated taking of pills and concoctions of quinine in no way reduced the Emperor’s fever. On 4 April, feverish, he accepted Arnott’s pills and some concoctions “of quinine so as to give strength to the stomach and limit the fever”.

The Emperor’s state alternated between better and worse.

Arnott advised Napoleon to take some pills, something which the Emperor refused to do. Doctor Archibald Arnott of the 20th Regiment agreed to provide medical attendance to Napoleon.ĩ am, Dr Arnott made his second visit to the Emperor, with the Grand Marshal Bertrand acting as interpreter, though his English was far from flawless.

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