lorsqu’il s’agit de couronner l’impératrice. Cette action devait être accompli par l’empereur, qui, après avoir reçu la petite couronne fermée et surmontée de la croix, qu’il fallait placer sur la tête de Joséphine, devait la poser sur sa propre tête, puis la mettre sur celle de l’impératrice. Il mit à ces deux mouvements une lenteur gracieuse qui était remarquable. Mais lorsqu’il en fut au moment de couronner enfin celle qui était pour lui, selon un préjugé, son _étoile heureuse_ il fut _coquet_ pour elle, si je puis dire le mot. Il arrangeait cette petite couronne qui surmontait la diadème, en diamant, la plaçait, la déplaçait, la remettait encore, il semblait qu’il voulût lui promettre que cette couronne lui serait douce et légère.” Napoleon, on this occasion, hastily took his crown from the Pope’s hands and placed it haughtily on his own head--a proceeding which doubtless startled his Holiness. In May 1814 Louis XVIII. and his family attended mass at Notre Dame after their entry into Paris. A great service was held there in 1840, to celebrate the restoration of the remains of Napoleon I. to French soil, while Archbishops Affre, Sibour and Darboy, who died violent deaths, were commemorated with fitting solemnities. The marriage of Napoleon III. to Eugénie de Montijo, Comtesse de Teba, on January 29th, 1853, was the occasion of a great display of gorgeous pageantry at Notre Dame, as was the baptism of the ill-fated Prince Imperial in 1857. The Terrorists of 1871 robbed the treasury of the cathedral of many valuable relics, but their intention to injure the fabric itself was prevented by the timely arrival of troops. The most notable ceremonies during the existence of the present Republic have been the funeral service, in June 1894, for President Carnot, assassinated in that year at Lyons, and the splendid State funeral of Louis Pasteur in October 1895. The great festivals of the Church are celebrated at Notre Dame on a scale of almost unrivalled magnificence. On Assumption Day, in particular, splendid music, wedded to the most ornate ritual, produces an effect never to be forgotten. The pulpit of the metropolitan cathedral has been occupied by a succession of great preachers, amongst them Bossuet and Bourdaloue, and the services and conferences are noted throughout the Roman Catholic world. The Dominican Lacordaire began in 1835 a series of majestic and picturesque discourses, which earned for him the title _le Romantique de la Chaire_, and he has been described as filling as a preacher the place occupied in literature by Victor Hugo and in painting by Delacroix, H. Vernet, and Delaroche. In recent times among the most popular pulpit orators have been the fiery Jesuit Père Ravignan, Monseigneur d’Hulst, Père Monsabré, and M. Hyacinthe Loyson, better known to fame as Père Hyacinthe.