The greatest honor we can do to one of our fellow citizens who has rendered great services to the country is to transport him to the Pantheon and when a formal family veto opposes this, as happened for Gambetta, we is then content to transport the heart in a silver urn. As for Voltaire's heart, we know that it was found last year in a corner of a cupboard in the National Library. We retyped the urn and left the heart on rue de Richelieu.

For Louis XVI, the Restoration had the remains buried and transported to Saint-Denis; but here, a doubt remains. Robespierre was also buried after his execution in the same cemetery which was transformed into the La Madeleine cemetery, which was located approximately where a statue to Victorien Sardou was recently erected.

Mr. Barras, in volume I of his Memoirs (p. 200), affirms that, on his order, the tortured on 10 Thermidor were thrown into the pit of the decapitated king and that “the corpses of Robespierre, Saint-Just, of Couthon are those who came to fill and close the cemetery of La Madeleine. So much so that when Louis XVI was exhumed on the instructions of the gravedigger Seveste, grandfather of the resident of the Comédie-Française in 1870, we were very well able to take the remains of Robespierre in his place. This is a point that has sometimes been denied, but has never been clarified,

Ah! the remains of illustrious men! Recently, regarding the decree of the Commune of 1791 which ordered the hearts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV to be transported to the Jesuit church, locked in silver-gilt boxes, a church demolished in 1793, I asked what had become these royal viscera?

M. G. Lenotre responds in the latest issue of the Intermediary of Researchers and the Curious, and the erudite historian assures that the architect Petit-Radel, responsible for removing the royal remains, put the two hearts aside. M. G. Lenotre adds: “We know that the human heart, preserved for a long time, such as that of mummies, contains a substance once highly sought after by painters. A landscape painter, named Saint-Martin, bought the hearts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV in Petit-Radel. ". The artist used it for his colors; a good part remained when the Bourbons returned and the painter gave them to Count Pradel;

today they are kept in the “wardrobe of hearts” in Saint-Denis. M. G. Lenotre assures that he took these details from a file in archives 03629. We can therefore verify. But what singular destinies are those of these famous hearts!

Marat was less happy after being taken to the Pantheon, his remains were thrown into the sewer; These uprisings and ups and downs of popular enthusiasm are more frequent than one might think. There would be a curious monograph to write.

JEAN-BERNARD.