One fine day doubt about this occurrence popped up unexpectedly.

After waiting a long time it was decided to get to the heart of the matter, and they finally opened the coffins of the two great men.

They were peacefully sleeping their last sleep.

The deed never took place; its history was a myth.
In this connection Victor Hugo's credulity may be mentioned, for it was astonishing in a man of such colossal genius.

He believed in the most incredible things, as the "Man in the Iron Mask," the twin brother of Louis XIV; in the octopus that has no mouth and feeds itself through its arms; and in the reality of the Japanese sirens which the Japanese were said to make out of an ape and a fish.