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Napoleonic Timeline: 1840

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Napoleon's death mask
Napoleon's death mask
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1840

15 October – In St. Helena, twenty-eight witnesses, whose Generals Bertrand and Gourgaud, Mamluk Ali (Louis-Etienne de Saint-Denis) and Louis-Joseph Marchand, former chief valet de chambre of the Emperor, attend the exhumation of Napoleon.

15 December – Les Invalides receive the casket containing the ashes of Napoleon.