1873 Funeral of Napoleon iii Procession Approaching St Mary's chapel chislehurst
Napoléon was originally buried at St. Mary's, the Catholic church in Chislehurst. However, after his son died in 1879, fighting in the British Army against the Zulus in South Africa, the bereaved Eugenie decided to build a monastery. The building would house monks driven out of France by the anti-clerical laws of the Third Republic, which would provide a suitable resting place for her husband and son. Thus in 1888, the body of Napoléon III and that of his son were moved to the Imperial Crypt at Saint Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England. Eugenie, who died many years later, in 1920, is now buried there with them. It was reported in 2007 that the French Government is seeking the return of his remains to be buried in France, but that this is opposed by the monks of the abbeyThe Abbey was founded in 1881 by the Empress Eugénie (1826–1920) as a mausoleum for her late husband Napoleon III (1808–1873), Emperor of the French, and their son the Prince Imperial (1856–1879), both of whom are buried in the Imperial crypt, as is Empress Eugénie herself. After the church and monastery were founded by the Empress Eugenie, they were initially administered by Premonstratensian Canons. In 1895, the Empress replaced them with French Benedictine monks from Solesmes. This community, famed for its scholarly writing and musical tradition of Gregorian chants, became depleted in number by 1947 and was augmented by a small group English monks of Prinknash Abbey. The last French monk died at Farnborough in the 1960's. In 2006 the community elected the first English Abbot of Farnborough - the Right Reverend Dom Cuthbert Brogan.
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