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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 124, 10 September 1875, Page 5

An Historical Remnant. — It must be v touching spectacle to i see the few remaining soldiers of the Grande Armee as they gather about the tomb of Napoleon the First in the Invalides. "Wednesday was the anniversary of the " Little Corporal's" birth, and Mass was celebrated in the Chapelle Ardent. About four hundred of the magnificent army with which Napoleon once terrified all Europo are still living ; but they are all so maimed or bedridden that only ! forty could muster in the Invali-les. They walked, or limped on. cruLohets round the tomb in solemn procession to offer their immortelles while they gazed with tearful eyes on the splendid sarcorphagus, and on the trophies of flags torn in battle from the hands of soldiers of almost every nation. j That lowa invention which is to effect " a perfect revolution in ' the easing of wood" has been explained. It is a. circular sa^r.