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    The retour des cendres (literally "return of the ashes", though "ashes" is used here as a metaphor for his mortal remains, as he was not cremated) was...
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    project of the retour des cendres orchestrated by king Louis-Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers (the reference to Napoleon's cendres or "ashes" is...
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  • directed by Christian Petzold. Loosely adapted from the 1961 novel Le Retour des Cendres (English: The Return from the Ashes) by French author Hubert Monteilhet...
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    Napoleon II (category Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques)
    ISBN 978-1-929631-67-4 (Synopsis & Review by Maria C. Bagshaw). Poisson, Georges, Le retour des cendres de l'Aiglon, Édition Nouveau Monde, Paris, 2006, ISBN 2847361847...
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  • Viviane Ventura as Receptionist The film was based on the novel Le retour des cendres (Phoenix from the Ashes) by Hubert Monteilhet, which was published...
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  • Monteilhet, Hubert Les Mantes Religieuses (The Praying Mantises) 1960 Made into a BBC television film in 1982 Le Retour des Cendres (Return From the Ashes)...
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    at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840, or retour des cendres, at...
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  • other works include: Ode à la France sur le retour des cendres de Napoléon (1840) Histoire de l'Algérie depuis les temps anciens jusqu'à nos jours (1842)...
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    Napoleon from Saint Helena back to France, in what became known as the Retour des cendres. Although construction was started in 1828, Belle-Poule was launched...
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    between Le Havre and Rouen via Honfleur with secondary stops along the way. She gained fame by being a participant in the retour des cendres ("return...
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