Top 10 Naughty S3x Stories From History

7 Napoleon’s Little General

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Body parts of the departed rich and famous have a way of mysteriously disappearing and ending up in museums or private collections. Out of all these appendages, none has had a stranger journey than Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis. In 1821, the member was removed from the French emperor when his doctor cut it off during Napoleon’s autopsy. From there, the penis made its way into the hands of the priest who performed Napoleon’s last rites.The journey gets a bit murky in the middle, but it seems that the priest kept Napoleon’s penis in the family for about 100 years. Then it was given to a London bookseller who sold it to an American bookseller named A.S.W. Rosenbach in 1924. The public got its first glimpse of the historical “artifact” in 1927 when it went on display at the Museum of French Art in New York. After a few unsuccessful attempts to sell the appendage, Napoleon’s penis was finally bought at auction in 1977 by American urologist John Lattimer. Since then, the penis has been with the Lattimers in New Jersey, occasionally coming out for documentaries that cruelly confirm what most of us already expected—that Napoleon had a tiny penis.