lleton de la Presse of November 5, 1849,
that MM. Meyerbeer, Eugene Delacroix, Franchomme, and Pleyel
held the cords of the pall. The Gazette musicale mentions
Franchomme, Delacroix, Meyerbeer, and Czartoryski.]

A vast number of carriages followed...

[FOOTNOTE: "Un grand nombre de voitures de deuil et de
voitures particulieres," we read in the Gazette musicals, "ont
suivi jusqu'au cimetiere de l'Est, dit du Pere-Lachaise, le
pompeux corbillard qui portait le corps du defunt. L'elite des
artistes de Paris lui a servi de cortege. Plusieurs dames, ses
eleves, en grand deuil, ont suivi le convoi, a pied, jusqu'au
champ de repos, ou l'artiste eminent, convaincu, a eu pour
oraisons funebres des regrets muets, profondement sentis, qui
valent mieux que des discours dans lesquels perce toujours une
vanite d'auteur ou d'orateur"]

At Pere-Lachaise, in one of the most secluded spots, near the
tombs of Habeneck and Marie Milanollo, the coffin was
deposited in a newly-made grave. The friends and admirers took
a last look, ladies in deep mourning threw garlands and
flowers upon the coffin, and then the gravedigger resumed his
work...The ceremony was performed in silence.

One affecting circumstance escaped the attention of our otherwise so
acute observer--namely, the sprinkling on the coffin, when the latter
had been lowered into the grave, of the Polish earth which, enclosed in
a finely-wrought silver cup, loving friends had nearly nineteen years
before, in the village of Wola, near Warsaw, given to the departing
young and hopeful musician who was never to see his country again.

Chopin's surroundings at Pere-Lachaise are most congenial. Indeed,
the neighbourhood forms quite a galaxy of musical talent--close by lie
Cherubini, Bellini, Gretry, Boieldieu, Bocquillon-Wilhem, Louis Duport,
and several of the Erard family; farther away, Ignace Pleyel, Rodolphe
Kreutzer, Pierre Galin, Auguste Panseron, Mehul, and Paer. Some of
these, however, had not yet at that time taken possession of their
resting-places there, and Bellini has since then (September 15, 1876)
been removed by his compatriots, to his birthplace, Catania, in Sicily.

Not the whole of Chopin's body, however, was buried at Pere-Lachaise;
his heart was conveyed to his native country and is preserved in the
Holy Cross Church at Warsaw, where at the end of 1879 or beginning of
1880 a monument was erected, consisting of a marble b