1802.] Account of the Difinterment of the Kings, &c.in France. 589 
On the firft of Vendimiaire, in the year 
9, conformably to a decree of the Contfuls, 
the body of I'urenne was removed once 
more, and conveyed with great pomp to 
the Temple of Mars, formerly the Church 
of the Invalids, where it was afterwards 
placed in the interior of the monument, 
which was originally ere€ted for it in the 
Abbey of St. Denis ; and which had been 
“preferved from demolition in the Mufeum 
of French Monuments. 
, 
underfigned above named, having caufed\to 
be erected the monument which was to in- 
clofe the remains of Turenne, and having 
contrived a concavity to receive the fame, 
ordered the coffin to be removed from: the 
place where it was at firft depofited; and, 
lifting up the glafs lid, caufed the following 
infcription, engraved on a plate of copper, to 
be placed in the infide; ie 
“* Les refles de Henry de la Tour d’ Auvergne, 
Vicomte de Turenne, tué d’un coup de canon, le 
27 Fuillet, 1675, 464 ans, pres le village de 
Saltzbach, exhumés en 1793, del Abbaye de St. 
Dennis, oi ils avoient été enterrés, ont été re- 
euillis par les foins d’ Alexandre Lenoir, Fondateur 
du Mufée des Monumens Francais, et dépofes 
dans le Sarcopbage qu'il a fait executer fur jes 
deffins, par arrété du Direétorie executify Pan 7 
de la Republic une et indivifible.” 
(IN ENGLISH.) 
*¢ The remains of Henry de la-Tour d’Au- 
vergne, Vifcount Turenne, killed by a canon- 
ball, the 27th July, 1675, aged 64 years, 
near the village of Saltzbach, removed from 
the Abbey of St. Dennis, where they had 
been interred, have been preferved by the 
care of Alexandre Lenoir, founder of the 
Mufeum of French Monuments, and depofited 
in the monument executed from his defigns, 
conformably to a decree of the Executive 
Diregtory in the feventh year of the Repub- 
- lic one and indivifible.”” . 
This infcription being placed in the coffin, 
a plank of oak was inftantly faftened on the 
lid, and the faid coffin was then conveyed to 
the fpot where the monument was erected, 
and there depofited in the prefence of us the 
underfigned ‘adminiftrator and keeper, by 
the Citizens Sauvé, brothers, afiifted by the 
Citizen Ambroife Robert Lefieur, and Jean 
Pachez, worknien at the faid Mufeum. We, 
the underfigned, then caufed to be placed 
and fattened the crowhing which finifhes the 
monument. 
The above procés- verbal has been drawn.up 
by us the day and year above mentioned, to 
certify the execution of the decree of the: 
Executive Dire&tory, and to record our vene- 
ration for the memory of Turenne. 
Signed, 
Lenoir, BinartT, A. R. Lesizur, 
PacnEz, Sauve, ainé, and P. 
Sauve. 
. MonrTuiy Mae, No. 88, 
_prefervation. 
‘workmen 
The tomb of the Bourbons was next 
opened, on the fide of the fubterranean 
chapels; and the workmen began by 
taking out the coffin of Henry IV. who, 
according to the plate on his coffin, died 
in 1610, aged 57 years. The remains of 
this prince were in fuch a perfect ftate of 
prelervation, that his countenance was not 
in the Jeaft changed. He was. placed in 
the paflage of the lower chapels, wrapped 
in his mantle, which was in equally good 
Every one was at liberty to 
infpeét the corpfe till Monday the r4th, 
when it was removed into the choir, and 
placed on the loweft ftep of the altar, 
where it remained till two o’clock in the 
afternoon; when it was conveyed into the 
burial ground called Des Valois, and de- 
pofited in a deep grave dug at the lower 
end of the ground to the right on the 
north fide. ‘This corpfe, confidered as a 
dry mummy, had had the fkull opened, 
and the brains taken out; inftead of which 
it contained a quantity of tow fteeped ina 
liquid eflence of aromatics, which ftill re- 
tained fo powerful an odour, that it. was 
{carcely poffible to fupport it. 
A foldier who was prefent, infpired by 
a martial enthufiafm at the moment of 
opening the coffin, threw himtelf.upon the. 
corpfe of the conqueror of the Leagite; 
and, after a long filence of admiration, 
drew his fabre, and cut off a long lock 
from his beard, which was {till frefh, ex- | 
claiming at the fame time in energetic — 
and truly martial language,—‘* Et mor - 
auf, je fuis foldat Frangais ! Deformats je 
nw aurai plus d auire mouffache!* Then 
placing the precious lock upon his upper 
lip: §* Maintenant je fuis fir de vaincre les | 
unemies dé la France, et je marche a la 
victoire.” t—He immediately retired. 
On the fame day, the 14th O&tober, the 
continued their labour, and 
opened fevera] other coffins of the Bour< 
bons; namely, Louis XIII. who died ia 
1643, aged 42 years; Louis XIV, who 
died in 1715, aged 77 years; Marie de 
Medicis, fecond wife of Henry IV. who 
died in 1642, aged 68 years; Anne of 
Aufria, wife of Louis XIII. who died in 
1666, aged 64 years; Marie Thérele, 
lnfanta of Spain, wife of Louis XIV, who 
died in 1688, aged 45 years; and Louis 
the Dauphin, fon of Louis XLV. wha. 
died in 1711, aged 50 years. 
* ¢¢ And alfo, lama French foldier.— 
Henecforth I will wear no other whifkers.’’ 
+ ‘*Now I am fure to conquer the enemies 
ef France, and J march to victory,” 
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