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#photo#France🇫🇷 Today, Napoleon’s lost friend, General Gudin, is finally coming home to rest, after having gone missing for over 200 years in Russia. Charles Gudin de la Sablonniere was Napoleon Bonaparte’s school friend and an acclaimed revolutionary general. He broke the Emperor’s heart when he was killed at the beginning of the calamitous 1812 Russia campaign. Gudin’s grave was then lost until, incredibly, a Franco-Russian team of archeologists found it in Smolensk, Western Russia, in the summer of 2019. Now, on 13 July 2021, the warrior’s remains are being flown back to France. The French Defence minister is meeting the bones at Le Bourget airport, before they are taken to the family vault in Montargis, south of Paris, and laid to rest. To find out more about this very special Napoleonic General and the amazing story of how he was found, watch our film, Find My General!