cuvier. L27 



The impression produced by this last stroke was 

 never entirely effaced. Often when walking with his 

 daughter he would stop before a group of boys, who 

 as they played reminded him of his child. This loss 

 happened to him when in Rome, then annexed t<> 

 the French empire, where he was sent to organize 

 the universities. 



During Cuvier's sojourn at Rome, Napoleon from 

 his own personal feeling appointed him Master of 

 Requests in the Council of State; and before tin- 

 year had closed, he appointed him Commissionaire 

 Imperial Extraordinaire, and sent him to Mayence 

 to rouse the inhabitants of the left bank of 

 the Rhine against the allied troops that were 

 in full march upon their territory. The rapid 

 advance, however, of the enemy compelled him to 

 return, and his zeal in the cause of his country was 

 rewarded in 1814 by the rank of Councillor of State. 

 Louis XVIII. not only continued our philosopher in 

 this honourable office, but appointed him to the 

 temporary situation of Commissionaire clu Roi, in 

 which it became his duty to defend all new and 

 improved laws before the two chambers. 



The tornado of the Hundred Days, though it 

 hurled Cuvier from the Council of State, left him in 

 possession of his office in the university; and after 

 the second revolution, he was elevated to the rank 

 of its chancellor. 



In 1818 he visited London, and remained there 

 with his family and secretary for six weeks, visiting 

 everything worthy of notice. His remark to his 



