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TOMB OF JOSEPHINE.
and France; her last words expressed the hope and belief, that 'she had never caused a single tear to flow.' Her body was followed to the grave, in the village church of Ruel, not alone by princes and generals, but by two thousand poor, whose hearts had been made glad by her bounty."
It is well known that Napoleon felt his fortunes had declined after his divorce from Josephine. With the superstition that marked his character, he asserted that the star of destiny was never favorable to him after that event. This he repeated more than once, during his humiliation at St. Helena, with a bitterness, if not of remorse, at least of that deep desolation, which it would have been the joy of her affectionate heart to have soothed and comforted.
