You would have been 240 years old

How he died:

The green wallpaper
The wallpaper in his room was dyed with Scheele's Green, a colouring pigment that had been used in fabrics and wallpapers from around 1770. Named after the Swedish chemist who invented it the dye contained copper arsenite. In 1893 an Italian biochemist called Gosio discovered that if wallpaper containing Scheele's Green became damp, the mould converted the copper arsenite to a poisonous vapour form of arsenic. Breathing the arsenic on its own might not have been enough to kill Napoleon, but he already was ill with a stomach ulcer. On the 5 May 1821, the arsenic possibly tipped the scale against "the little corporal."

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