Note 254 — CHAPTER 11 LATER NEO-GOTHIC OUTSIDE ENGLAND

The most extravagant compilation of idiosyncratic detail in Viollet-le-Duc’s work is to be seen on the tomb of Napoleon III’s half-brother the Duc de Morny, erected in 1858 in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Hardly any element of the ornamentation is clearly referable to a particular 453stylistic source, and the whole effect is as ‘Victorian’ as anything the wildest High Victorians ever produced in England.