With the 200th anniversary of Napoléon’s death – or assassination – which was marked on May 5, the life and baffling death of the controversial Corsican (1769-1821) is being revisited.
Emerging from the Enlightenment era, Napoleon shook the Middle East through his military expedition in Egypt and Syria.
The former French emperor died on May 5, 1821, aged 51, on the southern Atlantic Ocean island of Saint Helena.
Thanks to Napoleon, Jews that had been economically and politically marginalized and physically confined in European ghettoes, became free to enter European society.
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