. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e eye could reach, witha throng drawn from the entire country around. The flotilla as it approached was a brilliant sight. At thehead was the Dorade, a cross at her prow, and, behind,the coffin. It was draped in purple velvet, surrounded byflags and garlands of oak and cypress, and surmounted by acanopy of black velvet ornamented with silver and masses offloating black plumes. Between cross and coffin stood thePrince de Joinville in full uniform, and behind him Gen-erals Bertrand and Gourgaud and the Abbe Coquereau,almoner of the expedition. The vessels followi
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e eye could reach, witha throng drawn from the entire country around. The flotilla as it approached was a brilliant sight. At thehead was the Dorade, a cross at her prow, and, behind,the coffin. It was draped in purple velvet, surrounded byflags and garlands of oak and cypress, and surmounted by acanopy of black velvet ornamented with silver and masses offloating black plumes. Between cross and coffin stood thePrince de Joinville in full uniform, and behind him Gen-erals Bertrand and Gourgaud and the Abbe Coquereau,almoner of the expedition. The vessels following the Dorade bore the crews of the Belle Poule and the Favorite and the military bands. A magnificent fu-neral boat, on whose deck there was a temple of bronzedwood, hung with splendid draperies of purple and gold,brought* up the official procession. Behind followed num-berless craft of all descriptions. Majestic funeral marchesand salvos of artillery accompanied the advance. At Courbevoie the flotilla anchored. Notwithstanding. 3IO THE SECOND FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON 311 the intense cold, thousands of people camped all night onthe hill-sides and shores, their bivouac fires illuminating thelandscape. Only those who have seen Paris on the day of a greatfete or ceremony can picture to themselves the 15th of De-cember, 1840. The day was intensely cold, eight degreesbelow the freezing point, but at five oclock in the morning,when the drums began beating, and the guns booming, thepopulace poured forth, taking up their positions along theline of the expected procession. This line was fully threemiles in length, and ran from Courbevoie to the Arc deTriomphe by way of Neuilly, thence down the Champs Ely-sees, across the Place and Bridge de la Concorde, and alongthe qiiai to the Esplanade des Invalides. From one end tothe other it was packed on either side a hundred deep, beforenine oclock. The journals of the day compute the numberof visitors expected in Paris as about half a million. Insi
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