CORSICA AND NAPOLEON.
AJACCIO (Corsica), May 3 There wil be fetes and ceremonies on a large scale on May 5 throughout Corsica, when all Corsicans will celebrate the centenary of Napoleon. The Bishop of Ajaccio will lead a procession in tl>e morning to the Place des Palmiers, near the house where Napoleon was born. There the Archbishop of Aix will conduct High Mass in the open, under the palms, before an altar to be erected at the foot of the statue of. Napoleon as First Consul. In tli afternoon Marshal Franchet d’Esperey, representing |he French Government, is to lay the first stone of a great centenary memorial in the Place du Casone, opposite Napoleon’s grotto. Napoleon died at '5.49 p.m. on May 5, 1821, and 100 years later to the minute the Archbishop of Aix will begin to pronounce the solemn absolution in the cathedral and the salute of 101 guns will be fired by the Aiaccio forts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1921, Page 3
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158CORSICA AND NAPOLEON. Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1921, Page 3
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