He had grown considerably thinner in person during the last few months.  After his death his face and body were pale, but without alteration or anything of a cadaverous appearance.  His physiognomy was fine, the eyes fast closed, and you would have said that the Emperor was not dead, but in a profound sleep.  His mouth retained its expression of sweetness, though one side was contracted into a bitter smile.  Several scars were seen on his body.  On opening it it was found that the liver was not affected, but that there was that cancer of the stomach which he had himself suspected, and of which his father and two of his sisters died.  This painful examination having been completed, Antommarchi took out the heart and placed it in a silver vase filled with spirits of wine; he then directed the valet de chambre to dress the body as he had been accustomed in the Emperor’s lifetime, with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour across the breast, in the green uniform of a colonel of the Chasseurs of the Guard, decorated with the orders of the Legion of Honour and of the Iron Crown, long boots with little spurs, finally, his three cornered hat.  Thus habited, Napoleon was removed in the afternoon of the 6th out of the hall, into which the, crowd rushed immediately.  The linen which had been employed in the dissection of the body, though stained with blood, was eagerly seized, torn in pieces, and distributed among the bystanders.

Napoleon lay in state in his little bedroom which had been converted into a funeral chamber.  It was hung with black cloth brought from the town.  This circumstance first apprised the inhabitants of his death.  The corpse, which had not been embalmed, and which was of an extraordinary whiteness, was placed on one of the campbeds, surrounded with little white curtains, which served for a sarcophagus.  The blue cloak which Napoleon had worn at the battle of Marengo covered it.  The feet and the hands were free; the sword on the left side, and a crucifix on the breast.  At some distance was the silver vase containing the heart and stomach, which were not allowed to be removed.  At the back of the head was an altar, where the priest in his stole and surplice recited the customary prayers.  All the individuals of Napoleon’s suite, officers and domestics, dressed in mourning, remained standing on the left.  Dr. Arnott had been charged to see that no attempt was made to convey away the body.

For some-hours the crowd had besieged the doors; they were admitted, and beheld the inanimate remains of Napoleon in respectful silence.  The officers of the 20th and 66th Regiments were admitted first, then the others.  The following day (the 7th) the throng was greater.  Antommarchi was not allowed to take the heart of Napoleon to Europe with him; he deposited that and the stomach in two vases, filled with alcohol and hermetically sealed, in the corners of the coffin in which the corpse was laid.  This was a shell of zinc lined with white satin, in which