George SAND. Signed autograph letter to Eug. DELACROIX. The Ashes of Napoleon

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George SAND. Signed autograph letter to Eug. DELACROIX. The Ashes of Napoleon:
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[Eugène DELACROIX] George SAND (1804.1876)

Signed autograph letter to Eugène Delacroix.

One page in-4°. Autograph address.

Missing on the 4and sheetlet, no text interference.

[Paris, December 14, 1840]

« We have two Invalides interior tickets. […]

Grief is de rigueur. »

George Sand invites Delacroix to attend Napoleon I's return from the ashes ceremonyer, aux Invalides.

"Dear friend, we have two tickets for the interior of the Invalides. Mauritius ira take you will wear them tomorrow morning and you will go together. Cars will be able to run until then tomorrow, subject to a police route we also have. Mauritius will therefore be at home at 8:1/2 am. Grief is de rigueur.We will wear pancake for both of you. -I believe it will need to be returned around 10am. If you don’t have the patience to wait, at least you’ll see the church. Good evening, don't get crushed and have fun if you can. To you from the heart. George. If you don’t want to go, have Mauritius tell you to go walking. »

Died in St. Helena on May 5, 1821, Napoleon was buried on the British Isle where his remains lay for nineteen years. The Emperor had asked, in a codicil written on April 16, 1821, to rest in the land of France. It was in 1840 that King Louis-Philippe obtained England’s restitution of his body.

On December 15, 1840, a freezing cold reigned over Paris. Thousands of French people nevertheless flock around the Avenue des Champs-Élysées to house the monumental funeral chariot more than ten meters high that leads the fallen Emperor to his last home."" The procession, amid incredible popular enthusiasm, slowly descends the world’s most beautiful avenue. The bells ring, the drums go wild, the cannon thunders, cries burst from the crowd: "Long live the Emperor!" ”.

The chariot, harnessed to sixteen horses and followed by veterans of the Republic’s and Empire’s armies, crosses the Arc de Triomphe. It takes several hours for the procession to reach Les Invalides.

The coffin, surrounded by Austerlitz’s Flags, is carried inside the chapel where hundreds of thousands of people will come, in the following days, to gather in front of the coffin bearing Charlemagne’s imperial crown and Caesar’s golden laurel tiara.

Victor Hugo left a very nice report of this memorial day in Things seen : "Lafayette is forgotten, while Napoleon is still alive. Lafayette was just a date."" Napoleon is a genius. »

Hugo followed the course of the procession, outside, in a cold of -14º. We don’t know if Delacroix accepted George Sand’s invitation and attended this ceremony.

Provenance:

Achilles Piron (universal legatee of Delacroix)

Marc Loliée Library

Bibliography:

George Sand - Match, Lubin, t. V, pp. 183-184.

Sand Delacroix – Match, ed. Françoise Alexandre.

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