TWO GREAT FIGURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 322, 16 May 1921, Page 6

TWO GREAT FIGURES.

! NAPOLEON AND JOAN OP ARC. LONDON. May J. During France's national, revival honours were" paid to two of hoi j greatest.military figures—Napoleon anc d | Joan of Are. , | The personal touch was strongest at '' j Ajaccio, whore the Corsicans attended 111 religious and civic functions'.at Na--0 poleon's'burial place.. The s - • 0 f Aix pronounced absolution at the. ° ; precise moment of the centennium, anc 0 the ceremonies wore completed by the ! ] I forts saluting with-101 gutts. 11 ! The British rendered honours at St. l " [Helena. ! REVIVAL OF NAPOLEONIC CULT The centenary tins been responsible for an astonishing revival of tin Napoleonic cult, relics attracting wealtnv bidders. , ! A pathetic figure is the grand \ daughter of Napoleon, Eleanor, a tor C , mer maid of honour, now 50 years pi ■' age, who is an elementary schoo, 'j teacher,. renting a sinn.ll apartment of) } the Boulevard Saint Michel. j Marshal Foch contributed an appro ' ciation in a special Napoleonic supple ;* ment, staling that Napoleon was an ab solute master of military art, but finally '"' failed because he forgot the moral law ° I and that, peace was greater than war. ! The Joan of Are commemoration in 1 I duded a military review in Paris, anc . I the inauguration of national monit ! ; I ,v,n„tc ot..T?nupn find Orleans.