Day 60(c): A Little Big Man

Never underestimate a man by his stature should have been Napoleon's motto.  He managed to conquer almost all of Europe, changed the map forever, lost an army to an invisible enemy (cold air), and led his adopted country to greatness and ruin.

Without him there wouldn't be canned goods, Germany and a French pastry.

Napoleon's tomb lies in the center of a huge rotunda attached to an ornate chapel and the military museum.  The casket is made made of seven layers of different materials (stone, wood, lead,etc.).

Napoleon wrote in his diary that he thought the British were poisoning him while he was a prisoner on the island of St. Helens (the last British territory serviced by a mail boat).  Napoleon's claim was verified over 150 years later when hair samples from his tomb were found to contain traces of arsenic.