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Napoleon's Oraculum: And Book of Fate
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In 1813 after his defeat at Leipzig, Napoleon is said to have left behind him a "Cabinet of Curiosities." Within this, the story goes, a Prussian soldier discovered an Oraculum. The book was said to have been discovered by the Emperor in an Egyptian tomb during the French military expedition of 1801. Napoleon had the manuscript translated and from then on carried it with him and consulted it often.
Napoleon's Oraculum is an interesting artifact of the time-an oracular, or divination, system...