<P> Accused of "high treason against France" for selling Ballistite to Italy, Nobel moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy in 1891 . On December 10, 1896, Alfred Nobel succumbed to a lingering heart ailment, suffered a stroke, and died . Unbeknownst to his family, friends or colleagues, he had left most of his wealth in trust, in order to fund the awards that would become known as the Nobel Prizes . He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm . </P> <P> Through baptism and confirmation Alfred Nobel was Lutheran and during his Paris years he regularly attended the Church of Sweden Abroad, led by pastor Nathan Söderblom, who would in 1930 also be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize . However, he became an agnostic at youth and was an atheist later in life . </P> <P> Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies in various countries in Europe and North America and keeping a permanent home in Paris from 1873 to 1891 . He remained a solitary character, given to periods of depression . Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves . Nobel's first love was in Russia with a girl named Alexandra, who rejected his proposal . In 1876 Austro - Bohemian Countess Bertha Kinsky became Alfred Nobel's secretary, but after only a brief stay she left him to marry her previous lover, Baron Arthur Gundaccar von Suttner . Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will . Bertha von Suttner was awarded the 1905 Nobel Peace prize,' for her sincere peace activities' . </P> <P> Nobel's third and longest - lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess from Vienna, whom he met in 1876 . The liaison lasted for 18 years . After his death, according to his biographers Evlanoff, Fluor and Fant, Nobel's letters were locked within the Nobel Institute in Stockholm . They were released only in 1955, to be included with other biographical data . </P>

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