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July
19 2001,
Dear
President,
Thank
you for your letter and accompanying documentation
which testifies to the veracity of the thesis
you have unfailingly promoted according
to which Napoleon did not die of cancer
at St-Helena, but was the victim of arsenic
poisoning.
The
considerable efforts deployed in assembling
the necessary facts to lay the scientific
basis for this thesis and to give it the
largest possible audience, not only in the
community already attached to the Emperor's
memory, but also in public opinion, taking
into account the importance of such a development,
have indeed paid off.
I
wish to pay tribute to the passion and rationality
that have sustained your action from the
beginning. It justifies the confidence bestowed
upon you to direct the vast network of the
International Napoleonic Society of which
you have graciously made me a member.
I hope that this mission to promote the
most authentic perception possible of the
personality and role of the Great Emperor,
who made such an indelible mark on
recent History, is pursued.
With
my best regards,
Patrick
Leclercq
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