I have read that it is possible that Napoleon Bonapart was a high ranking Freemason who held the title of " Keeper of the Veil" The deugard or masonic sign for that position was placing your right hand insider your jacket. I do understand that he had an extremly serious case of bleeding ulcers and hemmoroids?
It’s looking unlikely. An online search didn’t reveal any claims that Napoleon Bonaparte was a Freemason, making him perhaps unique among Western political leaders in the last 200 years.
One site http://www.egy.com/community/99-03-01.shtml did have this to say “The distinction of first modern Freemason in Egypt goes to General Kleber, the luckless man left behind by Napoleon to govern the ‘Oriental Empire’.” This obviously would imply that Bonaparte himself was not a Freemason or he would have held prior claim over Kleber.
Well, Napoleon doesn’t have to feel left out. According to these two sites: members.aol.com/yagayagaya/index3.html and http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/articles/freemasons.htm he was a Freemason after all. As apparently is 98% of the human race. I’m starting to feel like I may be the only person born in the last three hundred years who isn’t a Mason.