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General Gourgaud, place the Emperor's hat also on the coffin." Then began the appropriate religious ceremonies, and during the following week the public were admitted to view the coffin as it lay in state in the Chapelle Ardente. The crowd was very great. Women fainted daily, and many were almost pressed to death against the gilded rails. After all, there was little to see.
The practice of poisoning was not, however, suppressed by this execution, and it was asserted, that confessions of a suspicious nature were constantly made to the priests. A court for watching, searching after, and punishing prisoners was at length established in 1697, under the title of chambre de poison, or chambre ardente.
Guido Bonatti, too, was there, astrologer of Forli; and Ardente, shoemaker of Parma, who now wishes he had stuck to his last; and the wretched women who quit the needle and the distaff to wreak their malice with herbs and images. Such was the punishment of those who, desiring to see too far before them, now looked only behind them, and walked the reverse way of their looking.
Take him as linguist, traveller and anthropologist, he was certainly one of the greatest men that modern England has produced. The Fate of The Scented Garden. Burton wad dead. All that was mortal of him lay cold and motionless in the chapelle ardente. But his spirit? The spirits of the departed, can they revive us?
Marmaduke began, speaking in fragments hurriedly put together, looking steadily down on his hands, using a brief business tone just as if every syllable had not been planned by him on his way back, so that the tidings might fall most gradually on the poor wife's ear. "It was indeed the Ardente. Four sailors were picked up yesterday, in one of her boats.
The King, thinking he had already given powers too ample to the Chambre Ardente, and shocked at the horrors of the numberless executions, carried out by the bloodthirsty La Regnie, refused. Then another method of influencing His Majesty was devised.
"Nevertheless she has compromised one of the noblest names in France," returned the duke. "She was forced to reveal the names of her confederates." "Yes! they have been as cruel as they were to poor Brinvilliers; they have taken her to the chambre ardente." cried the countess, in a trembling voice.
The coffin was borne by sailors into the Chapelle Ardente at the Invalides. "Sire," said Prince de Joinville to his father, "I present to you the body of the Emperor Napoleon." "I receive it in the name of France," replied the king. Then Marshal Soult put the Emperor's sword into the king's hand. "General Bertrand," said the king, "I charge you to lay it on the coffin of the Emperor.
The Convention has resolved to have, like Royalty, its Grands Jours, its Chambre Ardente, and to provide for its security by means of magistrates appointed by itself and by it kept in subjection.
Un uom ti si prosterna Innamorato al suolo Volgi ver me la cruna Di tua pupilla bruna, Vaga come la luna, Ardente come il sole. "Here," says Boito, "is a myth both beautiful and deep.
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