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The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte 473 a prisoner of the allies. The allies immediately reinstated the Bourbon dynasty on the throne of France. Louis XVI 's brother, the count of Provence, was recalled from England, where he had been living, and was given the title of Louis XVIII. 1 The bound- aries of France were fixed as they had been at the be- ginning of 1792. A great Congress of the victorious powers was summoned to meet at Vienna to settle the many problems of readjust- ment which now arose. Ac- cordingly there gathered in November a notable as- sembly of rulers and states- men, who set about to redistribute the realms Na- poleon had ruled. Although the allies were at one in their hostility to Napoleon, they immediately began ,to disagree on how Europe should be reconstructed. 837. Return of Napo- leon. While their sessions were still in progress Napo- TOMB OF NAPOLEON Napoleon died at St. Helena in 1821. The body was brought to Paris in 1840 and placed with great military splendor in this sarcophagus of reddish-brown granite, which was hewn in Finland as a solid block, weighing sixty-seven tons. Around it in the pavement are inscribed the names of Napoleon's greatest vic- tories, while some sixty captured ban- ners stand beside colossal statues of victory. The whole tomb is under the gilded dome of the church of the old soldiers' hospital, known as the In- valides, which rises one hundred and sixty-one feet above it leon, encouraged by the un- popularity of the Bourbon king and the dissensions among the powers, succeeded in escaping from his little kingdom and with twelve hundred men landed in France. With an army 1 The son of Louis XVI had been imprisoned and maltreated by the terrorists. He died while still a boy in 1795, but nevertheless takes his place in the line of French kings as Louis XVII.