Journey of three sinking seven floating

Napoleoon Bonaparte was a military, politician, French emperor in the early 19th century. His life and career spent a lot of ink on the posterity, including the 'precious' part of the journey. He updated the US website Thevintagenews (TVC).

The Listverse, after failing in the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte fell into a bad situation. First, he lost his position in France. Secondly, captured by the British and saved in St. John's Island. Helena, where he died in 1821 and third, he lost his penis.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

Dr. F. Autommarchi, who performed an autopsy, took Napoleon's penis in the presence of 17 people. As this cut is only 3.8cm long.

In 1927, this artifact was displayed at the French Art Museum in New York. In 1977, it belonged to the possession of the John J. Lattime family after an auction.

According to Time Magazine, in 1977, John J. Lattime paid $ 3,000 to buy a 1.5-inch (3.8cm) long penis, which costs about $ 1,000 per inch after more than half a century of "lost". Western world. Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon's Privates, said the artifact has a rather legendary history. 'It was in a small leather box, air-dried, without formaldehyde, chemicals, so it looked like beef jerky, ' Perrottet described.

Napoleon Bonaparte last days of life on a hospital bed.

According to Perrottet, Napoleon's personal doctor, Autommarchi took the penis during an autopsy after Napoleon died on St. John's Island. Helena in 1821 after a long time Napoleoon was exiled because of stomach cancer. After the penis was given to a priest, the priest intends to take it to Corsica but has not been executed before. Next, the penis fell into the hands of an English collector in 1916.

Perrottet added, the French government refused to buy back artifacts before it was put on public display 50 years later. In 1927, it was also displayed in New York by a rare book seller, who bought the penis in 1924.

Finally, in 1977, Lattimer, a urologist, decided to end the antiquity by buying it for $ 3,000. Lattimer did not want to attract more public attention, so he kept it under his bed and refused to let anyone see it. Since then, rumors have spread that people have paid up to $ 100,000. If the offer is real, then Professor Lattimer will have a total return on investment of 3,200%. Suppose Lattimer decided to break up with the penis, it would be a more profitable investment than shares of Facebook, Google, Microsoft or even Apple.

Penis of Napoleon Bonaparte.

When Lattimer died in 2007, Napoleon's famous penis was given by Mrs. Evan, the daughter of the successor professor. No new news about owner changes since then. On May 10, 2011, Time Magazine published an article, titled Napoleon's Penis, as one of the '10 most famous stolen body parts' (Penis Napoleons is one of the 10 most famous stolen body parts. ancient and present world) .