Napoleon's funeral carriage, 1840, (1921). 'Char Fun?bre De Napol?on'. The retour des cendres ('return of the ashes') was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of St Helena, where he had died in exile, to France, and their burial in the H?tel des Invalides in Paris in 1840. Engraving published by l'Imagerie d'?pinal. From "Napoleon", by Raymond Guyot, [H. Floury, Paris, 1921]