Antommarchi

Antommarchi, FRANCESCO, the physician of Napoleon at St Helena, was also a native of Corsica, and was born about 1780. He was already an anatomist of some celebrity at Florence, when he was induced in 1818 to go to St Helena. Napoleon received him with mistrust, but ulti- mately gave him his full confidence, and at his death left him 100,000 francs. After his return to Europe, he published at Paris his famous but scarcely trustworthy book, Les Derniers Moments de Napoleon (1823). During the Polish revolution, he did duty at Warsaw as director of military hospitals. He afterwards went to the West Indies, and died in Cuba, on the 3d of April 1838.