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