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his marshals on the cupola of the dome of the
Hôtel des Invalides. When one comes from
Montparnasse to the Boulevard des Invalides,
one sees above the Rue Oudinot the cupola, the
corbels, and cornices of the substructure of the
cupola displayed in the full light of the setting
sun, and apparently assuming human forms
which appear more or less distant according to
the point of observation from which they are
viewed. There are Napoleon, Bernadotte, Berthier,
and my friend copies them, “after nature.”
“How would you explain this phenomenon?”
he asks.
“Explain? Has one ever explained anything
by replacing one heap of words with another
heap of words?”
“You don’t think, then, that the architect has
worked according to a hidden plan?”
“Listen, my friend. Jules Mansard, who
built the dome in 1706, could not well have
foreseen the silhouette of Napoleon who was
born in 1769. That is a sufficient answer!”
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