Napoleon's hair found in Sydney by Magdalena Rosova

A few clippings of hair taken from Napoleon Bonaparte have been found in 130-year-old Town Hall in Sydney. Employees have found the hairs after cleaning vaults of the town hall. Swatch of Napoleon's hairs were in the town hall's archive for years, but no one know how they got to Sydney. An exhibition of the uncovered hairs lured many Australians. Curator of the exhibition, Margaret Betteridge, admitted that at the beginning she had not been sure the hair really belonged to Napoleon but the accompanying letter convinced her. In the letter, a Scotsman Ned Todd explains that a woman whose brother, major William Crockat, had been present at Napoleon's death, had given him the hairs of French emperor. It was known that after Napoleon's death his hair was cut and Crockat appeared in a painting depicting the death scene. But the reason why the hair ended up in Sydney, is not clear. In 1821 at age of 51Napoleon died in St. Helena, 13,000 kilometers from Sydney. Betteridge! believes that the hairs was not fake, even when no one knew how the hair had got to Sydney. Betteridge added that two years of cleaning and renovations of the town hall had uncovered more strange objects in underground vaults. One vault was full of the weird and wacky things, gifts given to the city. Among the things found in the town hall's vaults there was a large Sevres vase, a gift from France after an international exhibition in 1879 that took place in Sydney. But Napoleon's hairs is definitely the most spectacular thing employees found in the town hall.

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