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Ian Holm as Napoleon Bonaparte in the 2001 film 'The Emperor's New Clothes.' One of the real Napoleon's body parts is said to reside in New Jersey. (Philippe Antonello/Paramount Pictures)

To mark the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon's army at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, the Washington Post recently revisited a little piece of Napoleon himself. One that may actually reside in New Jersey.

Legend has it that Napoleon's penis was one of several organs removed from his body during the French emperor's autopsy. Eventually, it may have landed in the Garden State.

The report cites a 2008 video in which Tony Perrottet, author of "Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History, Unzipped," travels to Englewood to interview Evan Lattimer, the daughter of John Lattimer, a prominent urologist who in the 1970s bought what he believed to be Napoleon's penis.

While the mummified item was apparently found to be the body part in question, no one knows if it is actually Napoleon's.

Perrottet was allowed to see the specimen, which in the video is taken out of storage at the Englewood home of the Lattimers, but the part itself is not shown in the clip.

"It doesn't really solve the disputes about Napoleon's prowess," Perrottet says.

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