How did comte de mirabeau die?

Answer 1

Henri Guillemin always said he died "between two whores" as "after all, one dies as one can". Here's an extract from an online book:

"In early 1791, he conveniently died at age forty two. Strangely, six months before passing on, his life had taken a strange twist when his normal, frenzied daily pace accelerated noticeably. He, who already had a gargantuan appetite for life, doubled the portions. Today, in trying to explain his behavior, cocaine or speed would come to mind, but those drugs were unknown in his day. Suffice to say, he behaved like a racing motor about to disintegrate. He often complained of stomach pains and only a potion administered by his physician and friend, Cabanis, succeeded in calming him. This larger-than-life individual who had never been sick a day in his life died mysteriously of unknown causes in the prime of life.

Vicq d'Azyr, a highly respected man of science, performed an official autopsy on Mirabeau and declared that the cause of death was "not incompatible with teh ingestion of a violent remedy or poison." In spite of the eminent doctor's conclusion, it was stated officially that Mirabeau died of natural causes. The whole nation was saddened by Mirabeau's death and 300,000 people accompanied his mortal remains to the Panthéon where he was interred as a hero." -Gilles Andre Mousseau, Fed-ility, 2011

Anyway, he died April 2, 1791, in Paris. Wikipedia tells that he had pericardisis, which could have been due to poisoning; before he died he simply wrote the word "dormir", which means "to sleep". His remains were removed from the Panthéon and replaced with Marat's in 1794, after the sticky business of the iron chest.