| William Hazlitt - 1847 - 492 pagine
...which I was born, more than fifty years since. 2. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. 3. I have always had reason to be pleased with my dearest wife, MariaLouisa. I retain... | |
| 1854 - 482 pagine
...which I'was born, more than fifty years since. 2. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. 3. I have always had reason to be pleased with my dearest wife, Maria Louisa. I retain... | |
| John Overton Choules - 1854 - 410 pagine
...leading to the tomb is Bonaparte's dying request : " I DESIRE THAT MY ASHES MAY REPOSE ON THE BANKS OF THE SEINE, IN THE MIDST OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, WHOM I LOVED SO WELL." The crypt is a circular gallery, of about seven or eight feet wide, with a central... | |
| 1854 - 630 pagine
...twenty-six granite steps. Before the first step, in the pave* I derire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I loved so welL ment, is a mosaic rosette, whose centre is occupied by the imperial N. Two other mosaics,... | |
| John Overton Choules - 1854 - 383 pagine
...leading to the tomb is Bonaparte's dying request : " I DESIRE THAT MY ASHES MAY REPOSE ON THE BANKS OF THE SEINE, IN THE MIDST OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, WHOM I LOVED SO WELL." The crypt is a circular gallery, of about seven or eight feet wide, with a central... | |
| Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1855 - 452 pagine
...which I was horn, more than fifty years ainre. 2. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. 3. I have always had reason to be pleased with my dearest wife, Maria Louisa. 1 retain... | |
| 1855 - 66 pagine
...each other, and separated by twelve caryatides about * I desire that my ashes may rcpoie on tho banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I loved w> well. fifteen feet high. Lastly, there is a small funeral apartment intended for a reliquary,... | |
| Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 pagine
...his last will and testament, Napoleon said : " It is my wish that my ashea may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people whom I have loved so well." Twenty years subsequent to his death, that wish was complied with — a wish which... | |
| Napoleon I (Emperor of the French), John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1856 - 416 pagine
...1821, Long-wood. This is a Codicil to my Will. 1. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I loved BO well. 2. I bequeath to Counts Bertrand, Montholon, and to Marchand, the money, jewels, plate,... | |
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