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Le Fantôme...., 1835. (The Phantom...) Ghostly figure with a laurel wreath (Ney) outside the Palais des Ass[assins] Satire commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the execution of Marshal Ney. His ghost comes to call the peers assassins, at the very moment when they are judging, in the Luxembourg Palace, the accused of April - republicans arrested in the riots of 1834. Michel Ney, Marshal of the Empire, fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, was lauded as "the bravest of the brave" by Napoleon, but was later charged with treason and executed by firing squad on 7 December 1815.