 Miles Byrne died at his house in the rue Montaigne (now rue Jean Mermoz, 8th arrondissement, near Champs-Élysées), Paris on Friday 24 January 1862, and was buried in Montmartre Cemetery.His grave there is marked by a Celtic Cross - but this headstone appears to be a 1950s replacement for an earlier one.The inscription to his original headstone appears in his "Memoirs"; in part, it read