He retained his presence of mind, his vivid will upon their intermission, until the last; neither losing the precision of his ideas, nor the clear perception of his intentions.

The wishes which he expressed in his short moments of respite, evinced the calm solemnity with which he contemplated the approach of death.

He desired to be buried by the side of Bellini, with whom, during the time of Bellini's residence in Paris, he had been intimately acquainted.

The grave of Bellini is in the cemetery of Pere LaChaise, next to that of Cherubini.

The desire of forming an acquaintance with this great master whom he had been brought up to admire, was one of the motives which, when he left Vienna in 1831 to go to London, induced him, without foreseeing that his destiny would fix him there, to pass through Paris.