Sharjah24 – AFP: The Battle of Waterloo Memorial Museum is inaugurating an exhibition in which several objects that belonged to Napoleon I during the Battle of Waterloo and then during his exile on St Helena are displayed.

David Chanteranne, curator said, "Here we have the missing link between Waterloo, everyone knows the battle of 18 June 1815, and the death of Napoleon. The missing link was Napoleon's daily life. This daily life that took him from his second abdication of 22 June 1815 to Saint Helena, with a short stop on the island of Aix."

"In the objects you have behind me, you have all the elements of his daily life. For example this bathtub, which comes from Saint Helena. You also have the games, his clothes. He usually wore his bicorn, which we show at the beginning of the exhibition. Then he abandons his bicorn to wear a simple madras, with a simple shirt and silk stockings, that is to say like a sort of bourgeois," David added.

Concluding his statement, David Chanteranne pointed out, "The influence of Napoleon in Belgium is very strong. Not only in places of remembrance, as here at the lion's mound with the battle memorial, but more widely in the daily life of Belgians."