1816.  Jan. 12.  Family of Bonaparte excluded for ever
                  from France by the Law of Amnesty.

1821.  May 5.  Death of Napoleon.

1836.  Oct. 29.  Attempted insurrection by Louis Napoleon
                  (afterwards Emperor).

1837.  May 8.  Amnesty proclaimed for political offences.

1838.  “Idees Napoleoniennes” published by
                  Prince Louis Napoleon.

1840.  May 12.  The Chambers decree the removal of
                  Napoleon’s remains from St. Helena.

Oct. 15.  Exhumation of Napoleon’s remains.

Nov. 30.  Arrival of Belle Poule frigate at Cherbourg
with remains on board.

1840.  Dec. 15.  Remains deposited in the Hotel des Invalides.[33]

Aug. 6.  Descent of Louis Napoleon, General Montholon,
and fifty followers at Vimeraux, near Boulogne.

Oct. 6.  The Prince captured and sentenced to
imprisonment for life.

1841.  Aug. 15.  Bronze statue of Napoleon placed on the
                  column of the Grande Armee, Boulogne.

1846.  May 25.  Louis Napoleon escapes from Ham.

1847.  Oct. 10.  Jerome Bonaparte returns to France, after
                  an exile of thirty-two years.

1848.  June 13.  Election of Louis Napoleon to the National
                  Assembly.

Sept. 26.  Louis Napoleon takes his seat in the
National Assembly.

1857.  Longwood, the residence of Napoleon
                  Bonaparte at St. Helena, bought for
                  180,000 francs.

1860.  June 24.  Jerome Bonaparte (the Emperor’s uncle)
                  dies, aged 76.

1861.  Mar. 31.  Napoleon’s body finally placed in the crypt
                   of the Hotel des Invalides.

FOOTNOTES: 

[33] The ceremony was witnessed by about 1,000,000 persons and 150,000 soldiers assisted at the obsequies.  No relatives of the Emperor were present, as at this time the various members of the Bonaparte family were either proscribed and in exile or in prison.

INDEX

Abrantes, Duke and Duchess of, see Junot
Acton, Lord, 115
Aglietti, Dr., 157
Alexander, see Russia, Emperor of
Amherst, Lord, 48
Anne of Russia, Princess, 268
Antommarchi, Dr., 32, 75, 82, 85, 195, 293
Archambaud, 171
Arnott, Dr., 85
Augereau, General, 156, 176
Austria, Commissioner for, 45, 49
Austria, Emperor of, 49, 55, 113, 124, 133, 267, 274