REPLY1850
REMAINS OF JAMES II
By J. G. N.
The following passage is transcribed from a communication relative to the Scotch College at Paris, made by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones to the *Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica*, 1841, vol. vii. p. 33.:— "The king left his brains to this college; and, it used to be said, other parts, but this is more doubtful, to the Irish and English colleges at Paris. His heart was bequeathed to the Dames de St. Marie at Chaillot, and his entrails were buried at St. Germain-en-Laye, where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory by order of George IV.; but the body itself was interred in th…
Topics: Royal History, Genealogy, Historical Customs
Locations: Paris, Chaillot, St. Germain-en-Laye, Rue du Faubourg St. Jacques, Val de Grace