An interesting thing about Napoleon and those bees. When he was exiled to Elba he took up the flag of the De Medici and even went so far to rename a port after them. During his time on the island he was actually offered kingship by Italy but nothing ever came of it. In the midst of all this he was constantly under the watchful eyes of spies – most important of those, imo, were the agents of Talleyrand.

De Medici = Merovingian