The Washington herald., 1914-11-29
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I sieres. Money, Serurier, Oudinot and
| Jourdan. There also is the heart OF
.4gyptian assassin found and so. too. is
| the heart OF that First Grenadier of
France, La Tour d'Auvergne.
! or Napoleon twenty-siN marshals II is
| strange that only three, Lannes. Bes-
] sieTes and Poniatowski. should have met
| a soldiers death and that all but eight
| died in their beds. Four were killed in
| the period OF their masters downfall. Ney
! by the BourbOns, Murat by the Neapoli-
| tans Bruno by a mob, and Berthier by
| falling from his window. while MOrtier
| was struck down by a bomb thrown at
| King Louis Philippe in 1885
| Massena, Augur5au. Perignon. Keller
| man and Lcfebre did not long survive
the empire. and died before Napoleon.
/ But thirteen, or precisely one-half OF the
marShals outlived the Emperor, and
| Soult. Money, and Bernadotte were stfIl
! living when his remains were brought
/ back from ST. Helena.
The Tomb of Napoleon.
The Chapel Of the Dome. in which Ma
| poleon lies. was erected by the Grand
Monarque as the Royal Church in the
InyalIdcs. l5o years before the usurpeE
! of the Bourbon throne found his grave
| in front Of its high altar. Yet it was the
-.mperor himseII who converted IL TO a
morIuary purpose. when he brought TO
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| heart OF Nauban. those two marshals of
--ouis XIV, and gave them sepulture
| there.
me lofty wooden dome. with its now
| neglected and shabby gliding, rests like
a gigantic helmet on the tomb of NapO-
/ lean. which sits beneath the very CUpO-
la and in an open circular crypt. twenty
| feet below the floor of the church A. If
! to armor him against invaders of his
| quiet realm, he lies in no less than six
collins of oak. mahogany. ebony. lead and
tin, which in turn are guarded within a
massive fortress in the form of an i'm
posing sarcophagus, standing nearly M
teen feet high.
The rare red prophyry of the sarcoph-
! agus came from that Finland, which. at
| Tilsit, Napoleon permitted Russia TO
take from Sweden, the Gar Cheerfully
consenting to the quarrying OF it with
the remark that since Russia had over
thrown him, II was only fair that she
should entomb him. But the son OF the
, stones, cut on the frozen shores OF the
= White Sea, by a lining of the warm
tinted granite OF his own native Corsica,
while the base of all is a block OF that
green granite with which nature has
fortified the Gaul against the Teuton in
the mountains Of Vosges
Like sentinels about the tomb stand
twelve colossal Victories in Carrara mar
BILE. But even as the empire made the
fatal mistake Of eXalting force above jus
tice, so -.apoleon's victories Of peace are
celebrated in the dim shadows behind his
victories OF war. where in has relief on
the wall of the crypt are carved sym
bolical representations of his undisputed
titles to the gratitude of posterity-the
Code Napoleon; the execution Of great
public works; the founding of the Uni
verslty OF France; the establishment OF
the Legion Of Honor; the protection of
cor lerce and industry: the regulation OF
the public finances; the COnCordat; the
creation Of the Council of State; the re-
form of the civil administration and the
restoration of public order.
Only four personages of the empire
were specially chosen to be their EN-
peror's attendants in death. His broth
in chapels on either side of the entrance
to the church, while downstairs on either
side OF the bronze doors OF the crypt the
bodies Of two Of his most devoted fol-
lowers are entombed in the walls. One
OF these Is Bertrand. who followed him
In his two eXiles and to his two graves.
The other Is Duroc, who followed him in
peace and war until he fell by his side
in the Saxon campaign OF 1913, when the
Emperor in his bitter contempt for the
ingratitude OF man, praised his fallen
affection Of a dog. Like dog. then let II
be- the grand marshal of the palace
still keeps watch at the door while the
master rests in untroubled sleep.
Nothing In the Invalides better en-
phasizes its monumental grandeur than
three slabs of stone in one Of the small
rooms on the church. They are the I'M
carved covering of the unmarked grave
beneath the willows at ST. Helena. But
this grave at the Invalides, too has been
left nameless, for. after all. whether with