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General Gudin's remains sent to Paris


13.07.2021

Photo credit: Georges Rouget / ru.wikipedia.org (Public domain)

The remains of Napoleon's comrade-in-arms, General Gudin, were sent to Paris from the Moscow airport Vnukovo-3, RIA Novosti reports. The ceremony took place on Tuesday, July 13. Gudin's ashes will be buried at home.

As Russkiy Mir reported, General Gudin died of wounds received during the Battle of Smolensk. For over 200 years, the place of his burial remained unknown. The general's remains were found by members of an expedition that brought together Russian and French specialists. The project was implemented under the patronage of the Trianon Dialogue Forum.

The forensic experts of the Investigative Committee of Russia compared the extracted DNA with the DNA of a close relative of Gudin and established that the remains belonged to the legendary general.

It was planned to rebury the remains in the Parisian Home of Invalids last September, but the ceremony was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It is reported that the general will be buried next to the French marshal Lillippe Leclerc and the composer who wrote the Marseillaise, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

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