ETERNAL SALUTE
FRENCH SOLDIER'S MEMORIAL. In a cemetery at Dijon there is a monument. “The Awakening of the Emperor.” by the famous sculptor Francois Rude, representing Napoleon in his uniform, with a crown of laurels about his brows, throwing back the winding sheet and rising from his grave.
This memorial was erected by a soldier of the Grand Army, who paid Rude for the work, and when he died he left instructions that his body was to be buried in the cemetery in an upright position, facing his Emperor whom he had followed in many a campaign, with his hand at the salute.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 9
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103ETERNAL SALUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1938, Page 9
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