NAPOLEON, Return of the Ashes: Set of 8 engravings: - Exhuma - Lot 129

NAPOLEON, Return of the Ashes: Set of 8 engravings: - Exhumation of the Emperor - Departure of the body from Saint Helena - Transfer of the ashes to Les Invalides - Funeral of the Emperor (Champs-Élysées) - The clergy receive Napoleon’s remains in the main courtyard of Les Invalides (24x34.5 image, 44.5x61 sheet) - Napoleon in the chapel of rest at Les Invalides - Interior of the church at Les Invalides during the religious ceremony (same image in Spanish) - A former gendarme at the infirmary of Les Invalides. His feet were frostbitten at the Neuilly Bridge on the day Napoleon’s ashes arrived (Dec. 15, 1840); engraving by Paul Renouard published by the Société des Aquafortistes in 1896