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He had heard of her death while at Elba, and told Corvisat that it was a most acute grief to him, and although she had her failings she at least would "never have abandoned him"; and possibly this latter expressed opinion, so often repeated, might have been fulfilled had he at once thrown Marie Louise over after her desertion of him.
She was interred at Rueil amidst quiet solemnity, and in 1825 Eugene and Hortense erected a monument in her memory. The legend is that her last articulate utterance was the enchanted name of "Napoleon" "Elba." Corvisat, the Imperial physician, was piteously asked by the Emperor on his return why he allowed her to die, and the nature of the malady that took her spirit away.
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