Good Guy Napoleon rolls up his sleeves while visiting plague victims.

>On March 11 [Napoleon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) visited it [**the Armenian Monastery hospital on the seafront of Old Jaffa, now a quarantine station for plague victims**] along with [Desgenettes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/M%C3%A9decin_NICOLAS-RENE_DUFRICHE_DESGENETTES_%281762-1837%29.jpg), and there according to Jean-Pierre Daure, an officer in the pay commissariat, he ‘picked up and carried a plague victim who was lying across a doorway. This action scared us a lot because the sick man’s clothes were covered with foam and disgusting evacuations of abscessed buboes.’ >Napoleon spoke to the sick, comforted them and raised their morale; the incident was immortalized in 1804 in [Antoine-Jean Gros](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Antoine_Jean_Gros_par_Gerard.jpg)’ painting *[Bonaparte Visiting the Plague House at Jaffa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Antoine-Jean_Gros_-_Bonaparte_visitant_les_pestif%C3%A9r%C3%A9s_de_Jaffa.jpg)*. _______________________________ **Source:** Roberts, Andrew. "Acre." *Napoleon: A Life*. New York: Penguin, 2014. 192. Print. **Original Source Listed:** ed. Bulos, *Bourrienne et ses erreurs* I p. 44. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Napoleone di Buonaparte / Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon) [René-Nicolas Dufriche, baron Desgenettes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Nicolas_Dufriche_Desgenettes) [Antoine-Jean Gros / Baron Gros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Jean_Gros) [Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa (Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Visiting_the_Plague_Victims_of_Jaffa)