. Auf den Spuren Napoleons, seines Lebens und seiner berühmten Szenen. E Schwimmen im Himmel über den Bäumen der Champs Elysees und so unfassbar wie affine Wolke. Die sich ihm nähernden Straßen sind die Namensvetter der Felder oder Gefährten von Napoleons Ruhm. Die Avenuesdu Bois Boulogne, de la Grande Armee, Jena, Wagram, Fried-Land und Kleber, die Rue Tilsit und die Rue Pressbourg, die jeweils ihre besondere Hommage an die Füße des Bogens. Neben den Bronzen, die diesen riesigen und edlen Marmorhaufen verschönern, gibt es eine, die keinen Sieg feiert und dennoch an den Sieger von seiner besten Seite erinnert. Es ist die

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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