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An inventory of Napoleon's food and drink allowance while in exile has emerged for sale revealing the extraordinary array of goodies available to the failed French leader when he was a prisoner.<br />
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The 195-year-old document shows General Buonaparte and his entourage guzzled more than 40 bottles of wine a day and gorged on a weekly spread of extravagant food including a roasting pig and 29 birds - turkey, geese, duck, fowls and pigeons.<br />
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Despite the extensive list of luxury items, it is well known that Napoleon often complained about his living conditions during his time on the island of St Helena, where he was kept from 1815 until his death, aged 51, in May 1821.<br />
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The 'Schedule of the Allowances of Wines, Provisions, etc.' is dated 13th October 1820, seven months before Napoleon died.<br />
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It is being sold by the family of Richard Booth, who was the purser at St Helena at the time, through Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, Wiltshire on September 23.