. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. f this business had fallen in the month of June or July, with allits excitements, spontaneous and elaborate, I should have deemed asanguinary struggle between the government and the mob certain orhighly probable. The present military array might answer for anapproaching army of Cossacks. Forty or fifty thousand troops remainin the barracks within and camps without, besides the regular soldieryand National Guards in the field, ready to act against the domesticenemy. Providentially the cold increased to the utmost keenness; the genialcurrents of the insurrectiona
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. f this business had fallen in the month of June or July, with allits excitements, spontaneous and elaborate, I should have deemed asanguinary struggle between the government and the mob certain orhighly probable. The present military array might answer for anapproaching army of Cossacks. Forty or fifty thousand troops remainin the barracks within and camps without, besides the regular soldieryand National Guards in the field, ready to act against the domesticenemy. Providentially the cold increased to the utmost keenness; the genialcurrents of the insurrectionary and revolutionary soul were frozen. The climax of the pageant was in the temple of the In-valides. The spacious church was draped in the most mag-nificent and lavish fashion, and adorned with a perfect be-wilderment of imperial emblems. The light was shut outby hangings of violet velvet; tripods blazing with coloredflames, and thousands upon thousands of waxen candlesin brilliant candelabra lighted the temple. Under the dome,. THE FUNERAL MASS IN THE CHURCH OF THE HOTEL DES INVALIDES. THECATAFALQUE ON WHICH THE COFFIN RESTS IS SEEN IN THE DISTANCE. 316 THE SECOND FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON 317 in the place of the altar, stood the catafalque which was toreceive the cofifin. From early in the morning the galleries, choir, and tri-bunes of the Invalides were packed by a distinguishedcompany. There were the Deputies and Senators—neitherof which had been represented in the cortege—the judicialand educational bodies, the officers of army and navy, theambassadors and representatives of foreign governments,the king, and the court. But none of these dignitaries were of more than passinginterest that day. The centre of attention, until the coffinentered, was the few old soldiers of the Empire to be seenin the company; most prominent of these was MarshalMoncey, the decrepit governor of the Invalides. It was two oclock in the afternoon when the Archbishopof Paris, preceded by a splendid cr
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