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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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oaken box and exhibited itfor eighteen months in a little sacristy of thechurch. Later, at the solicitation of Desfontaines,professor at the Jardin des Plantes, the body ofthe hero passed into the collections of the museum,where lor nine years it figured in the laboratoryamongst the Egyptian mummies and the skeletonof a unicorn. It remained for Napoleon to rescuethis sad souvenir and give the marechal a militaryfuneral at the Invalides, where it received theadulation of a populace once more worshipful ofmilitary heroes. Louis XVIII closed up the museum of thePetits-Augustins and ordered the restitution ofthe monuments. Under Viollet-Ie-Duc, the tombsof the church were arranged somewhat after theplan of their original disposition. But the deathmask of Henry IV, guarded in this quiet cornerof the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, has morepower to revive memories, and seems more eloquentthan any other tangible relic of this stupendoustime, so fraught with change. I 111 I l\ -SIX MARCH IQ22
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/ENTENCED FOR LIFE J-L.P RAIN IOHAL

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