Fifty bottles of wine, four ducks, and a roasting pig: the feast of food and drink provided to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on Saint Helena was revealed Wednesday in a document auctioned in Britain.

The list details the inhabitants of Napoleon's household on the island, Longwood, including loyal aide General Henri Gatien Bertrand and his family, and numerous staff including “32 Chinese”.

Each day, the entourage were delivered 23 kilos of beef and veal, 23 kilos of mutton or pork, 31 kilos of bread, 42 eggs and 15 bottles of milk, two turkeys, two geese, 12 pigeons and nine fowl, in addition to the pig and ducks.

And to accompany the vast quantities of wine, also on the list were malt liquor, rum and cognac.

The document sold for £976 ($1487, €1,330) at auction on Wednesday in the southern city of Salisbury, England.

Signed by Denzil Ibbetson, a British officer and artist who served on St. Helena, the inventory is dated October 13th, 1820.

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