Historian-Archaeologist!Napoleon Bonaparte was a vegetarian? Where is the archaeological evidence of his diet?

Answer 1

There's a lot of accounts from Napoleon's subordinates i.e. his marshalls, servants and those in his old guard, stating that he often ate chicken and that he wasn't much of a gourmet and would eat just about anything.

Answer 2

An archaeologist could not demonstrate this to be true or false, it's just an impossible task. An archaeologist might be able to excavate the site of a cook fire in one of Napoleon's camps and by finding a few bones show that he might have had chicken for dinner while he stayed at that location However, that's a long way from demonstrating that Napoleon always ate chicken.

But an historian with access to the records of the staff of Napoleon's residence of Malmaison, which exist and are cataloged, could show this to be false. The records of the meals cooked and served to Napoleon prove he wasn't a vegetarian.

PS

Napoleon was both Corsican and French. 15 months before his birth in 1769 Genoa sold the island to France. Being born on French territory usually makes one French.

Fozzed:
Seen in Brussels eating sprouts, no doubt.

French "citizenship" didn't exist in 1769.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I know that chicken marengo was dished up for him at short notice after the battle of that name, so he can't have been a vegetarian.

Answer 5

Armies keep records.

There would also be accounts fron his personal cook.

Answer 6

he was seen in brussells quite a lot.

Answer 7

~The "French idiot" was not French and only a fool would not realize that he was Corsican.

As to his dietary habits, I guess his favorite dish, the one his chef created especially for him on the battlefield at Marengo in 1800, that being Chicken Marengo, must have been made of tofu. No, the Little Corporal, was not a vegetarian. When he took a break from slaughtering humans, he devoured animals.

Edit to Gutz:

Napoleone di Buonaparte was born on August 15, 1769. Yes, he was born in French occupied territory. However, the Treaty of Versailles, signed on May 15, 1768 whereby Genoa purported to cede Corsica to France is irrelevant to his citizenship or his nationality.

Corsica had declared its independence in November, 1755 and did not recognize Genoese sovereignty over the republic. The Corsican constitution is an interesting read. It was one of the models used for the formulation of the US Constitution and it was the first to grant suffrage to woman. Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli drove the Genoese from the island. In 1767 his forces took Capraia from Genoa. The Versailles Treaty was signed by Genoa for two reasons. First and foremost, Genoa realized that it no longer exerted authority, dominion or control over Corsica and dumping the newly formed democracy off on the French was a good way to get rid of the headache. Second, the deal canceled a debt owed by Genoa to France.

Corsica, not being a party to the treaty, was not affected by it. The treaty simply gave France the right to invade without retaliation by the Genoese. On May 8, 1769, French armies defeated di Paoli and Corsican independence died with his defeat, 3 months before Napoleon was born. At that point, Corsica became occupied French territory. Even then the island nation was not incorporated into France. Incorporation was accomplished by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The Congress, you may recall, was convened after Napoleon was exiled to Elba and continued during the Hundred Days and concluded 9 days before Waterloo. The irony is, Corsica did not became part of France until a few days before Napoleon's final defeat. One is given pause to wonder why Napoleon himself didn't annex Corsica. Could it be that his pride in his Corsican heritage precluded him from throwing that final French insult on Corsican independence?

So, Napoleon was born in French occupied territory and by the terms of the Versailles treaty he was entitled to claim French citizenship (but not until France conquered Corsica). Being born in French occupied territory, however, did not automatically confer French citizenship in 1769. It did make Napoleon a French subject. There is a difference. A good analogy would be the case of all those who were conquered by Napoleon; they did not become French simply because French troops occupied their homelands and the French controlled their governments. (Later on, in the twentieth century, there were not many Vietnamese, French Indo-Chinese or Algerians who claimed French citizenship or who would have been granted it although millions of them were born in French territory.)

The Versailles Treaty did not strip Napoleon's parents of their Corsican citizenship or heritage and they vehemently denied they were French after the French occupation of Corsica. When Napoleon attended school in France he still complained of the French invaders of his homeland and he considered himself to be Corsican. A pre-requisite of enrollment at Brienne-le-Château was a claim of nobility. Napoleon was admitted based on his ancestral noble roots in Tuscany and Lombardy and his father's Corsican titles. He was a French subject and he was subject to the French but he was not French.

When it became expedient to do so, particularly when he saw the opportunity for personal advancement during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, Napoleon claimed French citizenship, but he himself always acknowledged his Corsican heritage.

The Corsicans of Napoleon's day considered themselves free and independent and not supplicants of Genoa. They were, in fact, free and independent from 1755 until the French occupation. Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Buonaparte were staunch believers in Corsican independence and they raised their children in the same tradition. Maria died in Rome in 1836, never having learned to speak a lick of French. Carlo acquiesced to the French occupation when he was given a French government post.

Napoleon always claimed he was Corsican by birth. Who am I to argue with him?