Banquets and dinners followed the funeral. At one of these, a “sacred toast to the immortal memory” was drunk _kneeling_. In a dozen theatres of Paris the translation of the remains was dramatized. At the Porte Saint-Martin, the actor who took the part of Sir Hudson Lowe had a season of terror, he being in constant danger of violence from the wrought-up audience. The advertising columns of the newspapers of the day blazed for weeks with announcements of Napoleonized articles; the holiday gifts prepared for the booths of the boulevards and squares, and for the magnificent shops of the Palais Royal and the fashionable streets, whatever their nature—to eat, to wear, to look at—were made up as memorials. Paris seemed to be Napoleon-mad. In the February following the funeral, the coffin of Napoleon was transferred from the catafalque in the centre of the church to a _chapelle ardente_ in the basement at one side. The chapel was richly draped in silk and gold, and hung with trophies. On the coffin lay the imperial crown, the emperor’s sword, and the hat which he had worn at Eylau, and which he had given to Gros when he ordered the battle of Eylau painted. Over the coffin waved the flags taken at Austerlitz. Here Napoleon’s body lay until the mausoleum was finished. This magnificent structure was designed by Visconti, the eminent architect, who had planned the entire decorations of the 15th of December. Visconti utterly ignored the appropriations in executing the monument, ordering what he wanted, regardless of its cost. For the marble from which Pradier made the twelve colossal figures around the tomb, he sent to Carrara; the porphyry which was used to inclose the coffin, he obtained in Finland. In this magnificent sepulchre Napoleon still sleeps. Duroc and Bertrand lie on either side of the entrance to the chamber, guarding him in death as in life; and to the right and left of the entrance to the church are the tombs of his brothers Jerome and Joseph. On the stones about him are inscribed the names he made glorious! over him are draped scores of trophies; attending him are the veterans of the Invalides. “Qu’il dorme en paix sous cette voute! C’est un casque bien fait, sans doute, Pour cette tête de géant.” ----- Footnote 2: The Prince of Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe. [Illustration: JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH. Reproduction of the model of the marble statue exhibited in the _Salon_ of 1857, and executed for the town of St. Pierre (Martinique), the native country of Josephine. This statue as by the sculptor Vital-Dubray. The plaster cast is in the Versailles museum.] LIFE OF JOSEPHINE CHAPTER I FAMILY—EARLY SURROUNDINGS—EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS—MARRIAGE—SEPARATION FROM HER HUSBAND