The clever and delightful “The Emperor’s New Clothes” proposes that it was not Napoleon who died on St. Helena on May 5, 1821, but rather a look-alike impostor.

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St. Helena, an island in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, is most famous as the place of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile and death. Today, the honorary French consul keeps the former emperor’s homes and ...

Artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875 Provenance Exhibition History Published References Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, ...

Commemorations of the May 5, 1821 death of Napoleon are going ahead on St. Helena, the remote South Atlantic island where the deposed French emperor died in exile.

Although Napoleon’s body no longer resides on St. Helena, the land on which the tomb stands was sold in 1858 to the French government along with Longwood House for a sum of £7,1000.