. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. he body of Turenne and theheart of Vauban, those two marshals of Louis XIV, and gavethem sepulture there. The lofty wooden dome, with its now neglected and shabbygilding, rests like a gigantic helmet on the tomb of Napoleon,which sits beneath the very cupola and in an open circularcrypt, twenty feet below the floor of the church. As if toarmour him against invaders of his quiet realm, he lies in noless than six coffins of oak, mahogany, ebony, lead, and tin,which in turn are guarded within a massive fortress in theform of an impos
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. he body of Turenne and theheart of Vauban, those two marshals of Louis XIV, and gavethem sepulture there. The lofty wooden dome, with its now neglected and shabbygilding, rests like a gigantic helmet on the tomb of Napoleon,which sits beneath the very cupola and in an open circularcrypt, twenty feet below the floor of the church. As if toarmour him against invaders of his quiet realm, he lies in noless than six coffins of oak, mahogany, ebony, lead, and tin,which in turn are guarded within a massive fortress in theform of an imposing sarcophagus, standing nearly fifteen feethigh. The rare red porphyry of the sarcophagus came from thatFinland, which, at Tilsit, Napoleon permitted Russia to takefrom Sweden. The Czar Nicholas I cheerfully consented tothe quarrying of it with the remark that since Russia hadoverthrown him, it was only fair that she should entomb the son of the blue sea is shielded from those alien stonescut on the frozen shores of the White Sea, by a lining of the.
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