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ranks and ages rendered to his ashes the testimony of 

 their veneration. His remains were deposited in the 

 Garden he had embellished, and which his virtues had 

 honoured for sixty years ; and his tomb, according to 

 the expression of an individual who does equal honour 

 to the -sciences and the senate, will render it an elysium, 

 by adding the charms of sentiment to the beauties of 

 Nature. Two of his colleagues have been the eloquent 

 interpreters of the sorrow of all who knew him. Pardon 

 me, if these painful feelings affect me at this moment, 

 when I ought to be only the interpreter of the public 

 gratitude, and if they carry me away from the ordinary 

 tone of an academical eloge ; pardon him, I say, whom 

 he honoured with his kindness, and whose master and 

 benefactor he was. 



Madame Daubenton, whose agreeable works have 

 made her name known in literature, and with whom he 

 passed fifty years in happy union, brought him no 

 children. 



His place in the Institute was filled by M. Pinel ; in 

 the Museum of Natural History by M. Hauy ; and I 

 had the happiness to be chosen as his successor in the 

 College of France. 



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