This was the last meal of Napoleon Bonaparte.
May 1821. Exiled on the remote island of Saint Helena, the former emperor sat down to a simple breakfast of liver and eggs. He was weak, constantly ill, and wasting away. But, was this illness or poisoning?
Recipe — Napoleon’s Final Breakfast (1821)
Simple, early-19th-century French fare: liver, eggs, toast, tomatoes.
Pan-Seared Beef Liver with Onions
• Slice beef liver (½ cm thick). Optional: soak 20–30 minutes in milk or watered wine; pat dry.
• Slowly cook sliced onion in butter with a pinch of salt until soft and lightly golden.
• Season liver just before cooking. Sear in butter (or butter + beef fat) 1½–2 minutes per side — browned outside, pink inside.
• Optional glaze: add a splash of vinegar or wine, scrape the pan, spoon over liver and onions.
Shirred Eggs (Oeufs au Plat)
• Butter a small gratin dish or ramekin.
• Crack in 2 eggs, spoon 1–2 tablespoons cream around them.
• Season lightly with salt and pepper (optional pinch of nutmeg).
• Bake at 350–375°F for 9–12 minutes — whites set, yolks still soft. Serve immediately.
Garlic Toast (Pain Grillé à l’Ail)
• Toast rustic bread in butter until golden.
• While hot, rub one side with a raw garlic clove.
• Lightly salt and serve warm.
Roasted / Griddled Tomatoes
• Halve tomatoes. Pan-roast cut-side down in butter or oil until caramelized.
• Season with salt and pepper (optional tiny pinch of sugar).
• Finish briefly in the oven until just softened.
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Full Recipe — Napoleon’s Final Breakfast
It was really good…if you like liver.
Pan-Seared Beef Liver with Onions
• Slice beef liver (½ cm thick). Optional: soak 20–30 minutes in milk or watered wine; pat dry.
• Slowly cook sliced onion in butter with a pinch of salt until soft and lightly golden.
• Season liver just before cooking. Sear in butter (or butter + beef fat) 1½–2 minutes per side — browned outside, pink inside.
• Optional glaze: add a splash of vinegar or wine, scrape the pan, spoon over liver and onions.
Shirred Eggs (Oeufs au Plat)
• Butter a small gratin dish or ramekin.
• Crack in 2 eggs, spoon 1–2 tablespoons cream around them.
• Season lightly with salt and pepper (optional pinch of nutmeg).
• Bake at 350–375°F for 9–12 minutes — whites set, yolks still soft. Serve immediately.
Garlic Toast (Pain Grillé à l’Ail)
• Toast rustic bread in butter until golden.
• While hot, rub one side with a raw garlic clove.
• Lightly salt and serve warm.
Roasted / Griddled Tomatoes
• Halve tomatoes. Pan-roast cut-side down in butter or oil until caramelized.
• Season with salt and pepper (optional tiny pinch of sugar).
• Finish briefly in the oven until just softened.
Can cer today is not the same as what they just mentioned as can cer as of today didnt exist.
For once actually a last meal the subject did EAT… Thanks
We’re are the eggs
I saw liver and onions, not liver and eggs.
Anyone ever see SLC punks when Bob was ranting about acid and brought this up?
Where the fuck did the eggs go.
He was slowly be poisoned
this has to be ai
You had me at wine for breakfast 😂
I mean to be fair, if I’m not mistaken lots of people had traces of arsenic in their system back in those days. Hell, antimonial cups were used to induce vomiting for health (back when people believed in the pseudoscience of humors). It’d be like finding lead in the system of someone who grew up in the early 1900s, it’s hard to come to any conclusion based on that alone.
"He died… of stomach cancer"…
"Mmm 😋"
Bro add a transition I was too immersed
Wine in exile? Bro thats a vacation
if an important someone in history died of old age or desease there will allways be rumors he was poisoned.
Napoleon was poisoned by the brits with arsenic
Just bare in mind the green uniform he wore contained arsenic, since the green colour was poisonous, the same goes for the finish they used on certain wooden tables, and even the wallpaper and sheets in napoleons bedroom, damp conditions make all of this worse, and the fact he was virtually in house arrest was a recipe for disaster, he was also accidentally given a massive overdose of mercury the day before his death, he spent the night writhing in pain, complaining about his incompetent doctors, before dying, he was also very delirious and he called his friends wife a few.. unsavoury names, he barred her, and others from seeing him before he died.
Napoleon was extremely constipated around the years before his death. His doctor was noted to give him enemas of liquid mercury
It as the Rothschilds
Talleyrand killed Napoleon, by secretly working with Britain and the allies. Talleyrand believed Napoleon was power hungry and would destroy France with endless wars
One of the greatest men of all time
The arsenic based green paint his room was painted in was most likely the reason he developed cancer
Trump Last meal?
Do the last meal for Nicolas Maduro
Liver of what?
i dont like liver…..
Trump’s last meal probably be McDonalds 😂
Yall keep thinking of this story. Maybe think of your story. He got stomach cancer from the little poison that was put in his wine. Don’t you think we get cancer from the poison the government puts in our food?
Well, a lot of things at the time likely contained arsenic, mainly paints and pigments, often found in paintings, wall paper and even makeup.
Where the eggs
Are you a copy of HistoryOnAPlate?
What is the name of this song
He wanted to commit suicide but because of his huge ego, he thought the normal dose wouldn't kill him. So he took three times the lethal dose, vomited as a result, and survived.
Such a Napoleon thing to do
I don't believe in Napoleon anymore… The civil war. The revolutionary war. All lies propogated by masons.
Napoleons room was painted scheeles green which used arsenic as a component of the paint
bro that looked good until you said I'm eating someone's liver
Bonerpart has some nasty taste
Shit it’s a crazy time in history he took power won lost exiled came back took power won lost exiled and just kept doing that until his death
I'd like to know the last meal of the producers of this clip
When Maduro's Last Meal will be coming
What about Nicolae Ceaușescu?
Where the eggs😂
Make more videos like 2pac last meal, MLK, and other world leaders
He never existed
My nickname is arsenic cuz I’m a roadman
It was astonishing that anyone lived beyond 50 back then. Everything and I mean everything from the air, to the food, to the wine was toxic. Even the wallpaper was full of lead!
I cannot be rhe only one who sees French Charlie Kirk
He died of stomach cancer while still eating 😂