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Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides

The retour des cendres (literally "return of the ashes", though "ashes" is used here as a metaphor for his mortal remains, as he was not cremated) was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840, on the initiative of Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers and King Louis Philippe I.[1]

  1. ^ Antonetti, Guy (2014) [1994]. Louis-Phillippe. Biographies Historiques (3rd ed.). Paris, Ile de France, France: Fayard. ISBN 9782213652887.

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