The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-18 00:00:00

THE TOMB OF THE BONAPARTEB.

The following article from the Daily News will Interest
many of our renders, and all of whm will deeply s3mpathise
with the widowed Empress and the young Prince.
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The ashes of the family whose recent head now flee
dead at Chiselburst have had almost as many V iOliSk.
tildes as its nue:uteri have undergone in life. Of the
Bonapartes Mrs. Hemans lines are eminently true ;
Their names are severed far and wide,
IS) mountain, stream, and sea. •
That Napoleon had attained the purple it
was not ti be thought of that for him and his
the old family resting place in the quiet grave-
yard of Ajaccio would any more enffice. The
west Emperor, if he wisa a thrower sown, we.
, also • builder up, and in nothing did die more
strive Feriae than to build op into permanency.
of Royal state aed standing, that limp, vir. at-
kneed, tt °able-retie family of 'his. He wan sway--
big the sceptre of the ancient Monarchs of France—
, awayinz it, too, ea ith a greater power and oeer a wider
' area than ever they had due; but the new n,an was
not content only,to sit in the throne of the olii her,.
ditary potensatei, the of liiinself and hi + family
most lie beside the dust of royalty by divine right. In
the vaults of the Cathedral of St. Deets le the dust of
dynasty after dynasty of French menarche. The cur oue
in ooffine might begin with the baby of Chilperie and
Fredegonde, and work aystematienlly down through
the Merovin_dan dynasty, the Carlovingian dynasty,
the Catiets, and the Bitertione. The Fest Nepoleon
determined that in elt. Denis and nowhere else the
dead of his dynasty should repoae. Ile had a eplendid
vault built in the old Cathedral, under which linger
a.sueiations of leagoliert, St. Louis, Charlemagne, and
Joan of Arc. He gave out by Imperial decree that
"St. Denis WY to be the place of sepulture of the Na-
poleonic dynasty," arid, SA was his energetic wont, set
about repairing tleg place, after the ravages of the
Revolutionists, wltig, at the instigation of the amiable
Barrere, had smashed the monuments and tombs of the
kings, and made bullets out of their coffins. But the
stately old resting place of the old Itoyalty of France
would have none of the Curaican parvenu. The roof fell
In and smashed the Bonaparte vault with a stern crash
of lementerance, and although the indomitable Little
-Corporal set his fa-e, Si wile his wont in tomb einem-
stancee, to thwart the repugnance of St. Denis, other
crushes came, which toppled down, not a vault tho
time, but himself and his dynaaty, Hie dust, after it.
long exile under the will-,w tree of St. Het no, rest
now in the Invialides, and the Commune, if it dragged
down the Vendome Column, at least contrived to hold
its hand from &secreting the tomb of the man who THILEANENED Siliviths.— The Nottingham.
won the victories which that monument colionenio sidle societies tif fratnewerk hi:Ate...to Lave reported to
Jo-epliine lies among the orange trees of Alai- he council of the Nettieghatusliire Oiganized Trades'
mateou, and that ill-fated youth, whom fortune int eked X.ociation that a diseute I-se &Sete with them in
by the title: of the Singel Rome, but whom such of the oweelpi see of the eineleyere having given notice of
well as car--1 tic know aitythine of him at all, knew "Auction of wares, to COMO into force on the let of
better an the Dc.ke of liakmistadt, lies in the va,i1,43 of Watch, imitead of papas &need, Ai:CO as was &elicited
Seldinbrum OfJoseph. of Lucien, of Charles, of J,rozne,. by the work ; iso i thyl have urged that the
the brothers whom no peististxnt efforts on Napoleons asa.ciatim shouldbe fully prepared to meet the ew&.
part elatifd coal or hustle tato standing alone as Royal sency which will most probably arbeg. The operative
or Napoleonic perrunagee, Who cares to' ieqqw.the rest- tailors of Notth gnom have also tail a coinklaluf
in I-places? Suffice it to say that when the Ilan of etats of the entployers are attemeting to ienove
December shot and intrivued his way to Imperial :sloe list of wink which was agreed to on both eld. 11!
power in 1851-2, the "Napoleonic dynasty reruaine .t Spring ; iinl the worken, n have fully deterudeea
still without a place of aepulturee' Like his uncle, he to adhere to it ,- involving as it did an advance of XI
too tried to make one for it within the walls of the per cent, on the wages given—and not to ado, 00
Cathedral of St. Denis, but again the conservative old employer to have a preference over others.