Question: When did the land bridge between Britain and the country compared to a stringed agent while the nation the person paying for Chopin's funeral invited Chopin to was compared to a lion disappear?

chopin's relations with sand were soured in 1846 by problems involving her daughter solange and solange's fiancé, the young fortune-hunting sculptor auguste clésinger. the composer frequently took solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from sand's son maurice. chopin was utterly indifferent to sand's radical political pursuits, while sand looked on his society friends with disdain. as the composer's illness progressed, sand had become less of a lover and more of a nurse to chopin, whom she called her "third child". in letters to third parties, she vented her impatience, referring to him as a "child," a "little angel", a "sufferer" and a "beloved little corpse." in 1847 sand published her novel lucrezia floriani, whose main characters—a rich actress and a prince in weak health—could be interpreted as sand and chopin; the story was uncomplimentary to chopin, who could not have missed the allusions as he helped sand correct the printer's galleys. in 1847 he did not visit nohant, and he quietly ended their ten-year relationship following an angry correspondence which, in sand's words, made "a strange conclusion to nine years of exclusive friendship." the two would never meet again. <SEP> mozart's requiem was sung at the funeral; the soloists were the soprano jeanne-anais castellan, the mezzo-soprano pauline viardot, the tenor alexis dupont, and the bass luigi lablache; chopin's preludes no. 4 in e minor and no. 6 in b minor were also played. the organist at the funeral was louis lefébure-wély. the funeral procession to père lachaise cemetery, which included chopin's sister ludwika, was led by the aged prince adam czartoryski. the pallbearers included delacroix, franchomme, and camille pleyel. at the graveside, the funeral march from chopin's piano sonata no. 2 was played, in reber's instrumentation. <SEP> The islands enjoy a mild climate and varied soils, giving rise to a diverse pattern of vegetation. Animal and plant life is similar to that of the northwestern European continent. There are however, fewer numbers of species, with Ireland having even less. The only window when this could have occurred was between the end of the last Ice Age (about 12,000 years ago) and when the land bridge connecting the two islands was flooded by sea (about 8,000 years ago). All native flora and fauna in Ireland is made up of species that migrated from elsewhere in Europe, and Great Britain in particular. <SEP> Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. Ludwika took Chopin's heart in an urn, preserved in alcohol, back to Poland in 1850. [n 9] She also took a collection of two hundred letters from Sand to Chopin; after 1851 these were returned to Sand, who seems to have destroyed them. <SEP> She clearly had a notion of going beyond mere friendship, and Chopin was obliged to make it clear to her that this could not be so. He wrote at this time to Grzymała "My Scottish ladies are kind, but such bores", and responding to a rumour about his involvement, answered that he was "closer to the grave than the nuptial bed." He gave a public concert in Glasgow on 27 September, and another in Edinburgh, at the Hopetoun Rooms on Queen Street (now Erskine House) on 4 October. In late October 1848, while staying at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh with the Polish physician Adam Łyszczyński, he wrote out his last will and testament—"a kind of disposition to be made of my stuff in the future, if I should drop dead somewhere", he wrote to Grzymała. In late summer he was invited by Jane Stirling to visit Scotland, where he stayed at Calder House near Edinburgh and at Johnstone Castle in Renfrewshire, both owned by members of Stirling's family. <SEP> The supporters are the Lion and the Unicorn; the motto is "Dieu et mon droit" (French: "God and my Right"). Surrounding the shield is a representation of a Garter bearing the motto of the Chivalric order of the same name; "Honi soit qui mal y pense". (Old French: "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it"). In Scotland, the monarch uses an alternative form of the arms in which quarters I and IV represent Scotland, II England, and III Ireland. The mottoes are "In Defens" (an abbreviated form of the Scots "In My Defens God Me Defend") and the motto of the Order of the Thistle; "Nemo me impune lacessit". (Latin: "No-one provokes me with impunity"); the supporters are the unicorn and lion, who support both the escutcheon and lances, from which fly the flags of Scotland and England. The Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom are "Quarterly, I and IV Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or [for England]; II Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules [for Scotland]; III Azure a harp Or stringed Argent [for Ireland]".