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REPLY1850

Interment of James II

By J. D. (Earl's Court, Kensington)

I remember reading in the French papers, in the year 1823 or 1824, a long account of the then recent exhumation and re-interment in another spot of the remains of James II. I was but a boy at the time, and neglected to make a "Note", which might now be valuable to you. I have not the least doubt, however, that the fact will be discovered on reference to a file of the *Etoile*, or any other of the Paris papers of one or other of the years above named. There is a marble monument erected in memory of James, in the chapel of the old Scotch College, in the Rue des Fossés Saint Victor. An urn of bro…

Topics: Royal History, French Revolution, Historical Monuments

Locations: Rue des Fossés Saint Victor, Paris