NAPOLEON'S GHOSTS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 641, 14 June 1921, Page 4

NAPOLEON'S GHOSTS.

Two curious ghost stories connected with Napoleon’s death a century ago at St. Helena are told in an interesting account of that event which appears in the March “National Review.” The first was the Emperor's vision of his dead wife Josephine. Some days before his own death he told Monoholon, who was one of his suite: “I have just seen ray ~ dear Josephine, but she would not embrace me; she tore herself away when I tried to take her in my arms. She sat over there, where 1 thought i saw her yester,day. She has - not changed; always the same, always ’entirely devoted to me. She told me that we were about to meet once more, never to part again.” It was noted that her name was the last word lie uttered when lie died.

The second., which is even stranger, is an account of a person, closely resembling Napoleon in appearance and gesture, who visited Napoleon’s mother in Home about the very hour of the fhiy when he died in St Helena. “The stranger spoke of Napoleon to her as if he had just quitted h i in, and add fid, ‘.4.1 this-moment he is delivered from his sufferings he is happy/ ” Napoleon’s mother at once spoke to those about her of tin's visitor, who seen by three other persons in her palace, arid search . was made in Home f-'i- mivanfi resembling him, without result. She herself was con - that-it was the wraith rf Napoleon. There was nothing terrifying in tho vision if it vws a vision —but, on the contrary, ft produced in he r & kind of ecstasy.

.(iv.-; d c .iic-i mo* mysterious per■■•on “was like Nn ; oieon in voice, figure, and speech/'