A sort of synchronicity, I viewed Woddy Allen's "Love and Death" released in
1975, which I always wanted to see. There are some funny scenes somewhat
re-enacted from the time of the Emporer Napoleon and are quite interesting.
They required fairly large groups of re-enactors, filmed in Hungary, and I
was delighted by the picture. Although putting comedy and a battlefield a
difficult action, it has some very funny moments, almost a warning about old
weapons and the challenge of authenticity. The main plot involves Woody
Allen and Diane Keaton's role in the assasination of the Emporer Napoleon's
double, events in Russia before and events after the attempted murder.

A legend in New Orleans, Louisiana, holds that a relative of Thomas
Jefferson's wife, of the LaFite family, with the President's knowledge,
arranged the seashore exchange of a double for Napoleon in exile and that he
is buried in the LaFite cemetery after a heart attack off the Yucatan,
according to a Sunday supplement of the Times-Picayune a number of years
ago. In 1974 the Scottish Medical Association reviewed the official autopsy
and found some disagreement in the "P.I" report and the attending physicians
performing it. However I think it was agreed they had been looking at
Napoleon. I have read these years ago and as I recently read of a a call for
some DNA testing, thought to inform the list as perhaps there is more to the
story.

George Myers