TOMB OF NAPOLEON
FIGHTING FRENCH TO
CARE FOR IT
RUGBY, September 24.
The difficulty of remaining, faithful to the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte and loyal to the.Vichy Government compelled M. Georges- Collin arid his wife, the only .two French citizens living in the Domain of Napoleon, on :-St. Helena, to write to "General de Gaulle explaining their plight.-
The result was that a Fighting French ship called at the island; recently. -The captain and crew planted a willow near the Emperor's grave and hoisted the Tricolour with the Cross of Lorraine over the.tomb. Although the property was . vested - by Queen Victoria in Napoleon's heirs, its maintenance was taken over by the Third Republic, and since June, 1940, M. Collin has been in, the. pay. of Vichy. ■ ...". . '■ . . ■-.
In his letter to General de Gaulle he emphasised the humiliation of maintaining contact with traitors who had tramoled on the honour of France. Now the French National. Committee has assumed the responsibility for the- upkeep of the grave.—B.O.W. : .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 7
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