Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-13 | Page 36 | Mummies in French Shrine

MU IN fRENCH FENC SHRINE SHE Bones of EgyPt's Egypt's Kings Buried With Victims of Revolution PARIS PAnIS hy 12 By Dy The Asso so Aso- Aso Associated elated Press Recent Recent I tion has disclosed the novel fact I that a II number of Egypt's royal I de d are arc Interred under the tho tam tam- famous fam famous ous Bastille shrine of ot Frances France's I freedom It t appears that the noted French archaeologist and In- In InI in inventor I of the key to Ig I phils phil's ors oare ago ogo sent ent a number of mummies from Eg pt to tile Louvre Egyptology was then In III It Its Infancy and doubtless sut- sut suf sufficient precautions precaution had bad not been taken tolen to retain the mummies In their original stat state when the ro rov-nl rov I ci remains ed arli an lied in Paris Ianis it sas found Impossible to place them In Inthe inthe inthe the museums museum as is hid h been Intend Intend- Intended Intend Intended ed and In tn 1830 they were nero burled buried In the G of the Louvre I IThen Then tOllo followed ed the stormy days at the end 1 11 1 of ot July Tul when slen th tin pop pop- population population of Pari Paris j o oso o in pi otest 2 the ordinances ot Kin King I Charles X N Fighting place near the Lou Louvre ro and and the bodies of those killed d nero ero I burled where they fell It Is re- re recorded recorded re recorded corded that In the course lre o of this task one of or the citizens with isis his spade a skull kull which he ho thought I to bo ho that ft IC a a victim of the Mae Mas Massacre as- as sacre snore of St Bartholomew I but butI I wis In reality tint tIit of ono one of the tise Phs burled buried a 0 few before I I When Then the revolution re had been accomplished hed the new go gos decided to comm commemorate morato Ih Hie e cent ent I by the erection of or a column and the rem of ot tho the victims buried In the Eirden g wore nero Chum exhumed ed and beneath the new cot cot- col column limn In the tho Place de dc la In Bastille I IThe The hones bones of the lend lead were ere transferred with those of ot the Parisien who Iho had risen rion to defend rights nights and nl still lie lio beneath neath the monument in the tho midst of or one of oC the b busiest lest s squares are s of oC Paris