Gudin.

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After more than two-hundred years, repatriation at last. Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière. A soldier of France.

"Researchers find one of Napoleon’s favorite generals buried in Russia under a dance floor"

"For over 200 years, General Charles Gudin has been buried somewhere in present-day Smolensk, Russia after dying on the battlefield in 1812 during Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous campaign there. Now, researchers believe they have finally found his remains."

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"Most notably, Gudin personally knew Napoleon as they both attended school together in childhood. As such, he was one of Napoleon’s favorite commanders, which is why when a cannonball struck Gudin in the leg and killed him at the Battle of Valutino in 1812, his heart was cut from his body and transported back to Paris where it is interred in the chapel at Pere Lachaise cemetery."

The "home is where the heart is" the famous adage has a special meaning here. In this case finally the body and the heart to be re-united as one? Most gratifying. A feel-good story. It only took two-hundred years.

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