RN MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy on Monday tabled a “motion for a resolution aimed at repatriating to France the ashes” of Napoleon III, his wife Eugenie and their son, buried in a church in Farnborough, southeast England.
The proposal, which comes on the 150th anniversary of the death of the last ‘Emperor of the French’, has the ‘sole purpose of bringing back the ashes of a man, a woman and their child who served France and the French’, argues the lepenista deputy.
“The repatriation of the ashes will also make it possible to close a long exile of the memory of the history of France from 1848 to 1870, whose knowledge and study are not up to the considerable changes that our nation has experienced over these two decades. .”, continues the parliamentarian, who indicated that he had written to Emmanuel Macron to convince him of the merits of his approach.
A regular request
Elected the first President of the Republic in 1848, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor four years later after a plebiscite. Captured by the Prussian enemy during the War of 1870, released but removed from power in favor of the Republicans, he went into exile in Great Britain where he died on January 9, 1873.
French political figures regularly call for the repatriation of the remains of Napoleon I’s nephew. In 2007, Secretary of State Christian Estrosi made a proposal to this effect.
“Almost every 15 years, for reasons that are completely unknown to us, there is a plan to return the ashes of Napoleon III to his country,” Abbé Cuthbert, head of the Anglican community in Farnborough, England, had joked at the time. on the remains of the emperor.
Marine Le Pen had also suggested during a 2017 meeting in Ajaccio that Napoleon III’s ashes be transferred to Corsica.
Source: BFM TV
