Museum
The sedan chair belonging to the elderly Spanish infantry general Fontaines ( a Belgian, known to the Spanish as Fuentes ) was taken as a trophy by the French and may be seen in Les Invalides museum in Paris. Fontaines was killed in the battle; the duke of Enghien is reported to have said, " Had I not won the day I wish I had died like him."
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Famous quotes containing the word museum:
“[A] Dada exhibition. Another one! What’s the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb ... can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?”
—Max Ernst (1891–1976)
“Things will not mourn you, people will.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 191, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)