. Sulle orme di Napoleone, la sua vita e le sue famose scene. E nuotare nel cielo sopra gli alberi degli Champs Elysees e impalpabile come nuvola afleecy. Le strade che la si avvicinano sono i nomi dei campi o compagni di gloria napoleonica. L'Avenuesdu Bois Boulogne, de la Grande Armee, Jena, Wagram, Fried-Land, e Kleber, e la Rue Tilsit, e la Rue Pressbourg, ogni porta il suo tributo speciale ai piedi dell'arco. I bronzi di Amongthe che abbelliscono questo enorme e nobile mucchio di marmo, c'è uno che non celebra la vittoria e tuttavia commemoratesil vincitore al suo meglio. È il

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. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. e swimming in the skyabove the trees of the Champs Elysees and as impalpable as afleecy cloud. The streets approaching it are the namesakes ofthe fields or companions of Napoleons glory. The Avenuesdu Bois Boulogne, de la Grande Armee, Jena, Wagram, Fried-land, and Kleber, and the Rue Tilsit, and the Rue Pressbourg, each brings its special tribute to the feet of the arch. Amongthe bronzes that embellish this huge and noble pile of marble, there is one which celebrates no victory and yet commemoratesthe victor at his best. It is the memorial of a simple friend-ship of his youth and represents the death of young Muiron, who was a comrade at Toulon and who laid down his life forhis friend on the bridge of Arcole. One more monument to war which Napoleon designed, heafterward changed into a church, the classic Madelene, whosepagan beauty betrays its builders first purpose, when heplanned to make it a Temple of Glory and fill it with thestatues and tombs of his warriors. But he himself was not. Some Portraits of the Emperob1, by Gosse, 2, by Vernet, 3, by Delaroche, 4, from a miniature, 5, by David VICTORIES OF PEACE 255 to lie in the midst of them. On the contrary, he chose to sleepamong the kings that crowd the homely old church at St. Denison the edge of Paris. Personally reserving there a space forhis grave, he ordered the restoration of the edifice vrhich hadbeen desecrated by the revolutionists. While providing burial places for himself and his marshals, he took thought at the same time of the mortuary needs of allthe people of Paris outside the city and directed the opening offour cemeteries such as he had seen in Germany. The first andmost renowned of these was laid out in what formerly was theprivate park of the father confessor of Louis XIV—Pere La-chaise. Until then cemeteries were unknown in Paris, andbodies were heaped in confusion beneath church floors or foundno abiding place anywhere. A complete

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• bookcentury1900
• bookdecade1910
• booksubjectnapoleo
• bookyear1915