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PARK AND CEMETERY 
MAUSOLEUM OP HENRI II (CONDE) AT CHANTILLY. C IPPUS AT REAR 
CONTAINS HEARTS OF PRINCES OP COND'e. 
flowering shrubs and guarded at the entrance by a 
magnificent cypress. 
Again one finds expression of deep affection for a 
lost consort in the tomb erected by Canova by order 
of the Austrian archduke for his wife, Maria Chris- 
tina, in 1793, and which was made symbolic of her 
many virtues. The pyramid of gray marble is finished 
with nine life-sized allegorical figures. Virtue, pre- 
ceded by an attendant lighting the entrance to the 
tomb, bears the funeral urn upon which she bends 
her brow. A garland of flowers passing over the 
urn connects the middle figure with the one receding 
and following, thus binding the composition together. 
At the left up the steps comes Beneficence leading a 
blind and aged man. On the right of the entrance is 
a lion couchant, signifying guardianship of the tomb, 
while a tutelary genius leans forward with half-spread 
wings and knee resting against the armorial bearings 
of the House. Above is a relief medallion portrait 
of the archduchess borne by Felicity and a cherub 
with a palm branch. 
From the contemplation of those who in life en- 
couraged the arts of peace we turn to the sepulchre of 
one who was past master in the arts of war. That 
“Little Corporal” whose dying request that his ashes 
might rest on the banks of the Seine, was so mag- 
nificently remembered by the country he so loved. In 
a granite crypt of the Hotel des Invalides, encircled 
by marble Victories and the sixty captured battle 
flags, rests the sarcophagus which holds the greatest 
general. It is a block of Finland porphyry weighing 
sixty-seven tons. A faint bluish light is admitted 
from the apex of the dome above tbe crypt and falls 
on the scene below with weird ef- 
fect, suggesting death in all its 
solemnity, yet from the orange 
glass of the altar windows at the 
side steals the golden glow of im- 
mortality. 
Few Frenchmen have boasted 
greater warriors in their line than 
the Conde family, who in the per- 
son of the late Due d’Aumale, 
gave their splendid estate, Chan- 
tilly, to the government. The 
mortuary chapel is in keeping 
with the splendors of the other 
apartments of the Chateau. It is 
in the Renaissance style of col- 
ored marble with gate and ap- 
proaching staircase of wrought 
iron and copper. The interior is 
embellished with sixteenth cen- 
tury stained glass windows, a 
marble relief of Abraham’s sac- 
rifice and large figures in bronze 
symbolic of patriotism and valor. Behind the altar is the 
sarcophagus of Henri II., father of the Grande Conde, 
and the hearts of all the Princes Conde are within the 
Cippus above the altar. 
TOMB OF NAPOLEON UNDER DOME OF HOTEL DES IN- 
VALIDS, PARIS. 
