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Napoleon I died on the island of St Helena, where he had been in exile since 1815. In 1840 his coffin was brought back to France and transferred to the Invalides while the tomb was being constructed. The architect, Visconti, made vast transformations by excavating largely the inside of the Dome church to host the tomb. It is made of red porphyry from Russia, and rests on a green granite base from the Vosges. |