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Title: The drama of Saint Helena
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frémeaux, Paul Rieu, Alfred
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Baron Em-manuel de Las Cases and Marchand, who hadreturned to Saint Helena, the tomb was opened ;England at last consented to liberate her prisoner,and restored the ashes of Napoleon to France.After the coffin had been disinterred and placed inan ebony sarcophagus, over which was spread amao-nificent pall embroidered with Imperial crownsand eagles, it slowly descended towards Jamestownharbour, on a hearse drawn by four horses capar-isoned in black and led by the bridle, to the sound offuneral dirges and to the muffled rolling of drums.This time, the honours due to a sovereign werepaid to Napoleon. The Governor, Major-GeneralMiddlemore, had requested the inhabitants to dressin mourning ; the troops which lined the passageof the procession held their arms reversed, and theofficers commanding them wore crape on theirsleeves ; the flags of the forts floated half-masthigh ; and minute guns marked the progress of themournful but triumphant pageant. And when the great dead reached the shore
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THE AUTOPSY AND THE FUNERAL 309 where the French frigate which was to bear himfrom the island of exile awaited him with squaredyards, the upper and lower batteries of Jamestownboomed for the last time in homage to his glory,as they would have boomed for Queen Victoria. In 1821, England had thrown General Bonaparteinto a nameless grave, beneath three stones tornfrom the pavement of a kitchen. It was with thispomp and respect, that, nineteen years later, and innoble atonement, she solemnised the exhumation of THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. THE END. NOTES Page 5. Let Mr. Seaton only give up his ready-insults and vague generalities. The following is the passage relating to the author in Mr.Seatons book. It has not been thought worth while to cite it inthe French edition, but it seems necessary to set it before the eyesof English readers for their appreciation. Another recent publication dealing with a part of the SaintHelena history is With Napoleon at Saint Helena, by M. PaulFrémeaux, which cont

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