54 Notes on the Life of Arago. 



Gurnard, Colonel of the Parisian Artillery, who, having joined 

 M. Ledru-Rollin in the demonstration of the Conservatoire 

 des Arts des Metiers, on the 13th of June 1849, was sen- 

 tenced to banishment, but was subsequently pardoned by the 

 Emperor ; Messieurs de Lasterie, Jules Favre, Flandin, 

 Lherbette, and other members of the late Legislative Assem- 

 bly. Two Imperial state-carriages came next, in which were 

 seated Marshal Vaillant, Grand Marshal of the Palace, and 

 M. Ducos, Minister of Marine, who directs ad interim the 

 department of Public Instruction in the absence of M. For- 

 toul. Two battalions of infantry closed the march. The 

 cortege descended the avenue of the Luxembourg, passing 

 close to the spot where Marshal Ney was shot, and proceed- 

 ed to the Rues de l'Est, Val de Grace, and St Jacques, to the 

 church of St Jacques du Haut Pas. The edifice being small, 

 very few except the family and immediate friends of the de- 

 ceased could be present at the religious service, which was 

 performed by the parish priest, assisted by a numerous body 

 of the clergy. At one o'clock the cortege resumed its march, 

 in the same order, for the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise, passing 

 through the Rues St Jacques and Soufflot, the square of the 

 Pantheon, the Rues Clovis, Fosses, St Victor, and St Bernard, 

 the Quay St Bernard, the Bridge of Austerlitz, the Place 

 Mazas, the Boulevard Contrescarpe, the Place de la Bastille, 

 and the Rue de la Rouquette. It was said that this morning 

 when the Moniteur announced that the Government intended 

 to honour the memory of the illustrious deceased, the chiefs 

 of the Democratic party met, and resolved to recommend 

 their friends not to appear at the funeral. Either their orders 

 did not reach in time or were disobeyed, for the greatest 

 number of those who formed the cortege belonged to that 

 party, with whom M. Arago did not sympathise, and who 

 were in arms against him in June 1848. They awaited the 

 arrival of the procession in wine-shops and coffee-houses 

 along the line of march, and joined it as it passed. 



M. Ranal, a former pupil of the Polytechnic School, and 

 one of the young race of philosophers in whom Arago had 

 taken a lively interest, pronounced over the tomb of his mas- 

 ter the following brief but touching eulogium : — 



" Illustrious Master — Much-loved Master— Noble Citizen 



