...possibly appreciate the sentiment of the Emperor when he expressed the desire to be buried on tlie banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom he loved so well. There lives in St. Louis a beneficent, magnanimous old gentleman named Henry Shaw,...

...the whole story. Directly beneath the dome of the Invalides lies the body of him who said, " I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have ever loved." Surely mortal ambition ought to be satisfied to rest beneath such a splendid monument....

...still accessible. Over the entrance to this tomb, so often described, are his words, — "I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have ever loved." In a recess adjoining the crypt stands a statue of him as Emperor, dressed in his imperial...

...Ohisselhurst. But Bonaparte has a splendid mausoleum. "I desire," he said in his will, "that my ashes repose on the banks of the Seine in the midst of the French people whom I have greatly loved." Not far from the river, fronting an open square from which three boulevards diverge,...

...Chisselhurst. But Bonaparte has a splendid mausolenm. "I desire." he said in his will, "that my ashes repose on the banks of the Seine in the midst of the French people whom I have greatly loved." Not far from the river, fronting an open square from which three boulevards diverge,...

...dead. Over the door is inscribed an extract from the Emperor's will : " I desire that my ashes should repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I have loved so well." The hotel and tomb are surpassed by no edifice in Paris for absorbing and tragic interest. In the Latin...

...ou a tablet, ie the following extract from Napoleon's will : — " J desire that my ashes may rest on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom 1 have loved so well. Two bronze caryatides — one on each side of the door leading to the crypt —...

...quoted upon that threshold. Over the doorway is a sentence in French, from Napoleon's will : " I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have so much loved." * The Communists tore down the bronze column in the Place Venddme. The bas-reliefs,...

...the Invalides, containing the conqueror.s remains, are these words: " I desire that my ashes may rest on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I have loved so well." From a balustrade above the tomb under the beautiful dome the boys looked down in silence on the sarcophagus,...

...his own last wish, inscribed above the portals of the tomb, " I desire that my ashes may repose upon the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I have loved so well." What a world of thought and emotion must have risen in the soul of the aged Duke of Wellington, when...