ANTOMMARCHI, FRANCESCO. - Physician, b. at Morsiglia (Corsica) in 1790, d. at Santiago de Cuba on 3 Apr. 1838. He was chosen by Cardinal Fesch and Madame Letizia to replace O'Meara as Napoleon’s physician during his final exile. Having reached St. Helena in Sept. 1819, A. remained there until the emperor’s death, refusing to sign the autopsy report, since he believed that death had not been caused by stomach cancer, as was maintained therein. In 1830 he was in the service of the Polish insurgents at Warsaw. Shortly afterwards he decided to publish the mask taken from the face of the deceased emperor, but it caused such a stir that it was regarded as a falsification; he was therefore obliged to leave Europe for America, where he spent the last years of his life, first in
New Orleans and then on the island of Cuba. He wrote Les derniers moments de Napoléon (Paris 1825); and Mémoires et observations sur le choléra regnant à Varsovie (Paris 1831).