Bertrand’s wife, Fanny, sits with their elder children Hortense and Henry, while the Bertrands’ youngest child Arthur (born on St. Helena, and a favourite of Napoleon) peeks over the far side of the bed. Jacques Chandelier, Napoleon’s chef, bows his head at the bedside.
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François Carlo Antommarchi, who served as Napoleon’s physician.
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Henri-Gratien Bertrand, one of Napoleon’s most loyal generals, who was with him during his first exile
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Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, one of Napoleon’s generals who followed him into exile, and Capt. William Crokat, the British officer who formally transmitted news of the event to Europe.
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“The death of Napoleon” (1828) by Charles de Steuben. The Napoleon Museum, Arenenberg Palace, Switzerland.
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