Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-01-03


disturbed in his coffin, and placed 1t
in the sacristy, where the body was
exhibited for months at q penny a
head; then carried to the Garden OF
Plants, where it was exhibited tor
nothing. Talk of the dust of Caesar
dead @
"And turned to clay,
That stops hole to keep the wind away
Was there ever such a PROCLAMATION as
this? When the popular insanity
had passed away and the nation was
sitting clothed in its right mind, the
coffin and its contents were returned
to the spot where the Marshal was
first inferred, and now magnificent
monument in some measure atones
for the outrage.
A vigorous effort with the pick
soon tore through the Cyclopean walls
OF tomb adjoining, and there in roy
al state, with features well preserved,
was reposing the founder Of that long
line of LouiSes, the far-famed Henry
Navarro, the last of whom had just
poured out his life-blood upon the
scaffold. This was the gallant king
behind whose snow-white crest, at
lvry,
ga thousand spears were striking deep;"
and in the calm sleep of death he
still looked as defiant as when he
went forth against ''the hireling chiv-
airy of Guelders and Almayne." But
little cared the despoilers for the ma
jesty that looked forth even from the
coffin of this dead king. One rufian,
more sacrilegious than the rest, clip
ped off a portion Of the long NOUS
tache that shaded his lips, and was
soon sporting it over his own, as if in
mockery. Then commencing the riff
ing of the vaults where the remains
of the ill-fated house OF Stuart, who
had died in France, reposed. Near
the remains of these unfortunates
they found the coffin, and tore from it
the half decayed body of that mon.
ster, Philip of Orleans, the father OF
Egalite, with which they sported
throwing it at each others heads until
it was all in fragments. And now they
come upon corpse in remarkable
state of preservation. 1t is the body
of that mad king for whose amuse
ment cards were invented, Charles The
Sixth. This was the same monarch
who held his bacchanalian revels il
honor of his elevation to the throne 81
close to the vaults of the royal dead
that the merry feet of the dancers bea
time to the music on the sacred foo
OF the Abbey Church, and, as one o
the quaint old French chronicles ha
it: CAT night it was a true wake o
Vents, where many a damsel forgo
herself, aud many husband suffered.
1t certainly must have heen a mat
revpl. and could some of the devOu
abbotS or pious kings have been arous
ed from the depths of those sepulchra
vaults, they would have been dazzle(
certainly, but, at the same time, mos
: cruelty surprised. Piously they woulC
have crossed themselves from head t,
foot, and got back to their places o
| repose long before the Growing of tn,
cock. And now, after centuries o
darkness and silence. he lies exposed
to the rude gaze of an age as mad a
he was, and whose madmen were hold
Ing a different kind of revel from tha
with which he had desecrated the sa
cred pile. As they gazed on the qui
ct face whose features the art Of th
embalmer had so we'll preserved, on,
of the workmen declared that " b.
opened an eye, and winked at them
This was the signal to tear his bod,
! from its last resting place, and hur
! it among the heaps Of CHASTITY roya
relics that lay piled all around them
, Next was the monument of Charlie
: the Fifth, father of the preceding
who died in 1880, and by his side wa
l found the body of his wife, Joan Q
Bourbon, and their daughter, Isabella
In the coffin of this king was found
Silver-froSted crown, a hand of justic
and gilded sceptre. In the coffin O
3, the queen were the remains ofa crown
! + a ring Of gold, now worn by the pres
ent Empress of France, and the frae
i mentS of spindle.
: At the dead Of night, and by tn
light of torches, the sacrilegiou
: searchers stumbled over a sealed ston
vault which for centuries had sheltere
!, from the vulgar gaze .he founder O
i the church itself, the Solomon of tn
Franks, the mighty Dagobert. 1t wa
a wonder that, as in the German le
: gend concerning Charlemagne, tn
, corpse OF the buried king had nc
!, started from his coffined sleep and re
! buked these sacri!egious wretches b
the majesty of his living presence
: But he seems to have broken the il
Il trusion, and they made no longe
pause over what remained of the bod
of the church's foander than such a
was required to make the heap sti
higher by the addition of the roys
bones. 1t was near the vault of Das
obert that they stumbled upon leade
i, coffin, supposed to contain the bod
g of Francis the First, still in cond
tion to make Identification easy. Th
Z beard was still luxuriant and Ions
aud there was fresh tint about th
: cheeks, whether from artificial color
: ing or not could not be told.
And so the search went on nigh
: and day, until every bone, and ever