438 Account of the Difinterments of the Kings, &c. in France, [July 1, 
feryed it in an oak box, and depofited it 
in the little veltry of the church, where 
he exhibited it to the notice of the curious 
for more than eight months; after which 
period it was removed to the Botanical 
Garden at Paris, oa the earneft requeft of 
the learned Profeffor Desfortaines, a mem- 
ber of that inftitution. ) 
On the 24th Germinal, in the year 7, 
the Executive Directory decreed, that the 
remains of Turenne fhould be again re- 
moved to the Mufeum of French monu- 
ments ;* and that they fhould be depofited 
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* Procefs-Verbal of the Removal of the Body of 
Turenne to the Mufeum of French Monuments. 
Dated the ath of Prarial, in the 7th Year of 
the French Republic. 
We, Alexandre Lenoir, Adminiftrator of 
the Mufeum of French Monuments, refi- 
ding inthe ftreet called Petits Auguftines, 
in the divifion de V'Unite; and Pierre 
Claude Binart, keeper of the faid mufeum, 
charged by the Minifter of the Interior with 
the execution of the decree of the Executive 
Direétory of the 27th Germinal laft, relative 
to the removal of the body of Turenne from 
the Botanical Garden to the Mufeum of 
French. Monuments, being defirous of carry- 
ing into execution the above mentioned de- 
cree, and of refcuing the remains of a watrior 
yenowned for his valour, and his civic vir- 
“tues, from a place, where they were con- 
* founded with the common objets of public 
_euridfity, called to our aid the Cirizens Am- 
“proife Robert Lefieur, and Auguftin Jean 
Lefieur, (brothers) refiding in the {treet 
Colimbe, in the divifion de la Cite, who had 
affited us at the removal of the remains 
of Moliere and Lafonteine, with whom we 
concerted the means of effecting the removal 
of Turenne, conformably to' the directions 
of the Minifter of the Interior, that it fhould 
be executed privately. \ 
Accordingly about fix o’clock in the even- 
ing, one of us being conducted to the Arfenal 
of Paris,.to take charge of the carriage 
aligned us by the Citizen Berthier, chief of 
brigade, direétor for the time being of the 
Arfenal of Paris, repaired with it to the Bo- 
tanical Garden, where were affembled the 
Citizens Lenoir, Michel Pierre Sauvé, and 
Pierre Lewis Sauvé, (brothers), belonging 
to the Mufeum of French. Monuments. 
Citizen Lenoir then repaired to the admini- 
fixation of the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory, 
to obtain an order for the removal of the body 
of ‘Turenne, in virtue of the power with 
which he was invefted. Having procured 
the neceflary infru€tions, he rejoined us 
about eight o'clock in the evening 5 when, 
being direéted to the place where the remains 
of Turenne were depofited, we were Intro- 
duced into an apartment adjoining the am- 
phitheatre, which was ufed as a laboratory, 
in the monument ereéted in the Elyfiam © 
Garden of that eftablifhment. 
in the middle of which was placed in an 
alcove of wood, painted to reprefent gra- 
nite,a painted wooden box, inthe fhape of 
a coffin, with a glafs lid, in which we 
were told the body of Turenne was inclofed. 
Through the glafs cover of this cofia we 
obferved a corpfe extended at full length, and 
wrapped in a fheet, which had been torn in 
fuch a manner as to expofe the head and 
ftomach. Upon further examination, it ap- 
peared to us, that every part of the body 
muft have been carefully embalmed, as 
the’ whole was in excellent preferyation. | 
The fkuil had been cut away, and, replaced 
or fupplied by a wooden cap of the fame 
form, but of a greater circumference. Every 
feature of the countenance appeared to us to 
have remained unaltered, fo that we could 
“trace the refemblance of this great man to 
the reprefentations of him which the ftatuary 
has tranfmitted to our times. The effects 
of the blow, which deftroyed him in the 
midft of his triumphs, were ftill vifible in 
the appearance of the mouth, which was 
open extremely wide; a circumftance doubt- 
lefsly occafioned by the’ violent convulfions 
of his frame which followed the fatal blow. 
Continuing our obfervations upon thefe vene- 
rable remains, we perceived that the arms were 
extended on each fide of the body, and that 
theshands were crofied upon the region of the 
belly. The other parts of the corpfe were 
wrapped in the fheet, and prefented nothing 
uncommon in their appearance. 
To one fide of tle coffin was affixed a plate 
of copper, which appeared to be the fame 
which had been placed upon the original 
cofin, in which the body of Turenne was 
inclofed, and upon which we read the follow- 
ing infcription. i 
‘¢ Ici eft le corps de fereniffime Prince Henry 
de la Tour, d’ Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, 
Maréchal de la Cawalrie Légéve de France, 
Gouverneur du haut et bas Limofin, lequel fut tu€é 
aun coup de canon, le XXVIII Fuillet, Pan 
M.DC.LXXVII. 
(IN ENGLISH.) 
“Here lies the body of the moft ferene 
Prince Henry de la Tour, d’Auvergne, Mar- 
fhal-General of the Light Cavalry of France, 
Governor of Upper and Lower Limofin, who 
was killed by a canon-ball the XXVII of 
July, in the year M.DU.LXXVIL.”? 
The coffin being then conveyed to the 
carriage which we had brought for the pur- 
pofe of removing thefe venerable remains, 
two of us accompanied them with Citizen 
Lenoir to the Mufeum of French Monu- 
ments, 
On the 22d Meffidor, in the year 7 ef the | 
Republic, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, 
we, Alexandre Lenoir, and Pierre Claude 
Binart, adminifirator Jand keeper, and the 
4 underfigned ~ 
