Paris passé & présent . e Koyr River Lake Ladoga, la rivière Neva, Cronstadt, la mer de Battig, la Manche, le port de Havre, et de là, la Seine jusqu'au quai dOrsay. Il en a coûté quinze cent dolarspour enlever la pierre massive de ce quai aux Invalides; et, étrange à dire, le con-tracteur qui l'avait amené de Russie était obligé de payer un devoir de Maison personnalisée d'onethosand dollars avant qu'il ait été autorisé à commencer avec lui fiom Ha^^e. Les quatre chapelles qui entourent le lieu de repos Des Em-pereurs sont étiquetées St. Augustin,St. Ambroise, Saint-Gregoire et Saint-Jérôme, dernier en mémoire de

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Paris past & present . e Koyr riverLake Ladoga, the river Neva, Cronstadt, theBaltig Sea, the English Channel, the port ofHavre, and thence up the River Seine to theQuai dOrsay. It cost fifteen hundred dollarsto remove the massive stone from that quay tothe Invalides; and, strange to say, the con-tractor who had brought it from Russia wasobliged to pay a Custom House duty of onethousand dollars before he was permitted tostart with it fiom Ha^^e. The four chapels which surround the Em-perors resting-place are labeled St. Augustin, St. Ambroise, St. Gregoire and St. Jerome, thislast in memory of Napoleons brother. Thesechapels are all closed to the public by heavyiron-barred gates, and it is between them thatthe tombs of Turenne and of Vauban are placed, with Napoleons crypt uncovered. There wasa time, toward the end of his reign, when LouisNapoleon was for transforming the churchwhere his uncle reposed into a family vault, destined exclusively for the Imperial Dynastywhich he then represented. Eacli of the four. napoleons resting-place. QUEEN VIOTOKIAS HOMAGE. 241 chapels were to contain a tomb of one of Napo-leons brothers, but as things happened Jeromealone secured this honour. After that LouisNapoleon had another notion ; he was for trans-ferring the remains of the Emperor as well asthose of all other members of his family, toSaint Denis, but that project was never real-ised. Apropos of this tomb of Napoleon, anothergreat French soldier, Marshall Canrobert des-cribes a touching incident of interest to allAnglo-Saxons in his Memoirs, but recentlypublished. ^ At the end of the Crimean warQueen Victoria, accompanied by her husband, and their two oldest children, visited Paris, andwhile there were taken to the Invalides to seethe tomb which was then being erected. Theremains of the great Emperor were alreadythere, but not in the magnificent place they nowoccupy. After looking at it for a few momentsin silence the Queen, placing her hand on theshoulder of the Prince of Wal

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