Show AUSTI AUSTRIA IA RETURNS NAPOLEON TROPHIES VIENNA reb Feb The 3 3 T T c I Crown oro croft n th the sceptre the seal of ot state the mar mar- marshall's marshall's mar shall's shall's baton and the tho mantle ill used by Napoleon I at his Iris coronation at Milan on May 26 6 1806 1506 have b e bt bei et surrendered by Austria to Italy In ac accordance accordance with Ith a clause of the tr tr treat of at tl ot of St Germain The house ot of o Haps Haps- Hapsburg Hapsburg Haps burg burg became possesse possessed l o of the e trophies In Italy and carried them oft to Vienna in lUS 1518 since when th their lr return has more than once been 01 b bl Italy but without success Of the gold-gilt gold crown I 1 Iby by a II cross and richly Inlaid with mother of ot pearl and paste stones atones IL a awill will wl be recalled that Napoleon apoleon set Iton It Iton Iton on his bis 0 own n head bead exclaiming Go Gor S has bestowed I It t on me woe to whom whomever T ho ho ever attempts to touch It it The on ky slee sleeved ed coronation C robe of or green eh et trimmed with Ith ermine and em- em embroidered em embroidered broidered In gold and elites en lace to I which in 11 gold leaves of ot clo closer cloer er Na 11 Napoleon's Apoleon's Initials recur II a a hundred d timos always has bas been boon regarded 4 a as l perhaps the the most magnificent lobo obo robee er er eer worn by monarch at his corona corona- corona corona- coronation tion Uon coronation It It Ita t was as a as with many regrets that the of ot these objects was yo- yo 10 here l by the rational Assembly 00 |