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Exiled Napoleon’s island home recreated in Paris exhibition

France’s national army museum has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years, bringing furniture and belongings from the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena to Paris for the first time since he was exiled there 200 years ago.

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Napoleon's last home recreated in Paris' exhibition
A visitor looks at "I want my ashes to rest on the banks of the Seine, in the middle of the French people that I so love" 1840 painting by Jean Pierre Marie Jazet during the press visit of the exhibition "Napoleon in St Helena" in Paris, France, Tuesday, April 5, 2016. France's national army museum "Les Invalides" has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years, bringing furniture and belongings from the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena to central Paris for the first time since he was exiled there 200 years ago. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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