Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-22

l which marks the location OF the spot
where the bloody guillotine Of the
French Revolution stood, and where
Napoleon himself saw the sights which
sickened him with mob rule. draws
more interested sight seers, than the
Church Of the Invalides, selected to re-
ceiYe the body Of the emperor, after
the English government had consented
to its removal from St Helena. nearly
a quarter OF a century after his death.
The day we visited the church, the sun
was streaming through the dome of
blue glass overhead, and the deeply
colored rays OF light which descended
upon the famous crypt where the body
lies enclosed in a great porphyry cas-
ket, made the scene one of singular
beauty. Overhead in the wall Is
carved the sentence from Nnpoleon's
pose upon the banks of the Seine,
among the French people whom have
loved SO WE'LL A grizzled old French
soldier, covered with medals (the tomb
Is watched day and night by the veter-
ans of tho army points out the inscrip-
ton to us, and as we pause and slowly
decipher the words, 1t Is Impossible not
to feel u wave of emotion, as we re-
call the wonderful tale of that meteoric
career and IT'S still more wonderful fall.
church, and in the great Interior Itself,
IRE hung the flags, tattered and shot
to pieces, which the conqueror brought
home from a hundred battles,
Is CORONATION ROBES.
We spend Il most interesting. day, first
In visiting that marvellous array OF pic
lures in the Louvre. where the military
subjects are greatest of all, and where
the immortal painting by David, show
ing the coronation of Napoleon and
Josephine, Just as 1t took place III No
5tre Dame, with David himself stationed
among the other guests. Is pre-elninent;
second, IN repairing to Notre Dame it,
self as E1oolriifS grand as 1t was hun
dreds of years ago, and in standing on
the very spot where David stood whenS
he looked tiownsupon the swonderfuiiAsli
ssnlblage and drew his picture. Stored
in a chapel on the side are the very
coronation robes which Napoleon wore,
and an obliging monk. for a modest
tip, takes them out for our inspection.
All Notre Danes accumulation Of.
treasures Is stored in the Same place,
but none possess the interest for us,
that lies In the rich red7piles OF gold
trimmed cloth which the monk so care
fully spreads before our gaze.
VERSAILLES VISITED.
Another morning Of the deepest in
terest was our trip by auto to Yer
sailles, the old time country seat of
the French royalty. where SO many
scenes in the bloody revolution We're
enacted, and where Napoleon himself
was u prominent player. Today the
famous halls. chambers and galleries
where Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis
XIV and Louis XVI lived SO much Of
their famous or Infamous lives, where
Richeleu intrigued. where Anne of
Austria held her court and where
Marie Antoinette knew both pleasure
and misfortune. are used to store the
historic relics of the reigns5 OF the past
of the unhappy king and queen whose
heads fell under the guillotine are
there in endless variety. and there al
so are pictures and mementoes with
out number Of the household OF Ma
poleon after he had divorced Josephine
and married Maria Louisa, who gave
him the infant on whom he counted
to perpetuate his name. Many pathe-
tic paintings there are OF the child
(styled the King OF Rome) and his
mother. both OF whom he was destin-
ed never to see again after his ban
ishment to ST Helena. With the sad