Few, if any, of the visitors who conscientiously go the round of the) sights of Paris realize that the remains of an ancient sovereign of Egypt lie among those of the Frenchmen who fell in the street fighting which took place in Parts in 1880 and 1848, before Charles X and Louis Philippe were overthrown. As a token of national gratitude, the bodies of the citizens Killed inthe 1830 movement were removed from their original place of interment in the Tuileries Gar: dens and deposited in the vaults under the column (known as the July Column, because the revolution_broke out in that month) in the Place de la Bastille.
According to M. Léonce Garvillier, a learned French historian, there had been a previous burial in the same part of the Tuileries Gardens. Some officers of Na-pelean's staff brought home with them-from Egypt 2 mummy which they had removed from an imperial mausoleum, but the mummy, not having been properly packed, came into contact with sea water during the voyage. It began to decompose, and by the time it reached the Tuileries, it had become so unpleasant that there was nothing for it but to put it underground as' soon as possible. It was accordingly buried in the garden, just where the revolutionaries were interred about a quarter of a century later, and when they were taken in state to the July Column the mummy went too.
There are many stories of living persons who have accidentally received honours meant for others. Apparently these little mistakes may occur even after distinctions have ceased to be of any importance. The incident reads like satire on posthumous decorations.
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