[Napoleon facing the experts (1795-2001)].

After the autopsy in 1821 had concluded that stomach cancer was the cause of Napoleon's death other diagnoses have been suggested with mixed success. In 1913, the scientific community inclined to favour an amoebic attack as the cause of death but returned to the stomach cancer diagnosis in 1978. At the beginning of this century, the arsenic poisoning hypothesis has been given media coverage but it lacks any real scientific basis.