Maréchal Ney. Marshal Ney, one of the bravest of

the marchais of Napoléon I. He was, however, fickle and vacillating in his character. First he was a strong republican in the Révolution— then he joined Napoléon — after Napoleon's exile he joined the Bourbon party ; on the return of Napoléon he went over again to him, and after the battle of Waterloo he was condemned and shot for high treason in the Avenue de l'Observatoire. The spot of his exécution, at the southern extremity of the garden of the Luxembourg, is now conspicuously marked by a statue in bronze, erected to his memory in 1853.