“ Where in the man is Napoleon ’s penis ? ” seems like a illusion question , along the same transmission line of “ Who ’s buried in Grant ’s Tomb ? ” But it ’s not a brain-teaser . As far as we know , Napoleon ’s penis is in New Jersey , while Napoleon himself rest in Paris .
Napoleon died on this day in 1821 , in all likelihood of breadbasket cancer , and was originallyburied on the island of his expatriation , St. Helena . At least , mostof him was . During the autopsy , the Dr. allegedly decided to take Napoleon ’s member , presumably as a gonzo souvenir . The doc give it to a priest for safekeeping , and the non-Christian priest smuggled the part to Corsica . After that , Little Napoleon was pass down as sort of a contrary kinsfolk heirloom for decades .
In 1924 , an American rare Quran dealer bought the collectible , and allowed it to be display at New York ’s Museum of French Art . One newspaper reviewed the exhibit anddeclaredthat it resemble “ a shriveled eel . ”Timesaidit was like a “ maltreat strip of buckskin shoelace . ” Charming .
The aim passed handwriting a few more time throughout the decades , then was purchased for $ 3,000 in 1977 by John Lattimer , professor emeritus and former president of urogenital medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons . Lattimer was an interesting fellow himself , collectingmorbid curiosities such as the blood - stain collar Lincoln was wearing the night he was shot at Ford ’s Theater and the spyglass capsule that contained the cyanide Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring took to dedicate suicide .
When Lattimer excrete away in 2007 , he left the pipe organ to his daughter , Evan . “ Dad believe that urogenital medicine should be proper and comme il faut and not a joke , ” she has said , and has thus far travel along her sire ’s deterrent example of not exhibiting the Little Corporal .
Of course , it may not even be Napoleon ’s . The Gallic Government has seemingly never accepted it as such , but thanks to an disco biscuit - ray fill by Dr. Lattimer , we do fuck this much : It’sdefinitelysomeone’spenis .
