LIST OF EVENTS AND DATES HAVING REFERENCE TO NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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CHAPTER I

THE ABODE OF DARKNESS


In Clause 2 of his last will, dated Longwood, April 15, 1821, the
Emperor Napoleon states: "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."

At London, September 21, 1821, Count Bertrand and Count Montholon
addressed the following letter to the King of England:--

"SIRE,--We now fulfil a sacred duty imposed on us by the Emperor
Napoleon's last wishes--we claim his ashes. Your Ministers,
Sire, are aware of his desire to repose in the midst of the
people whom he loved so well. His wishes were communicated to
the Governor of St. Helena, but that officer, without paying any
regard to our protestations, caused him to be interred in that
land of exile. His mother, listening to nothing but her grief,
implores from you, Sire, demands from you, the ashes of her son;
she demands from you the feeble consolation of watering his tomb