Editorial" Napoleon table" 1864, a gift from the city of Paris to Napoleon III. Inlaid paintings by C. Freund show " the Napoleons": Napoleon I, his son, the duke of Reichstadt, Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial. Between the four: castles...
EditorialThe Duchess of Morny, wife of the half-brother of Napoleon III. The Duke of Morny was the son of Queen Hortense of Holland and her lover General Flahaut. The Duchess was one of the famous beauties of the Court of Napoleon III.
EditorialJacques, seigneur de Cr?vec?ur et de Thois, capitaine de Compiegne, d. 1439. Chromolithograph from Loredan Larchey's Ancien Armorial Equestre de la Toison d'Or et de l'Europe au 15e siecle (Ancient Equestrian Armorials of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
EditorialThe court at Compiegne, 1869. Madame de M. watching the hunting party start. Woman in violet dress with crinoline empire, black ribbon belt and black lace bib and apron. The Palace of Compiegne was the court residence of Napoleon III during the hunting...
EditorialBeauvais and Compiegne, City of Beauvais and Compi?gne in France, Signed: Joh. Peeters delin, Fig. 80, after p. 97, Peeters, Johann (del.), 1661, Martin Zeiller: Topographia Galliae, oder Beschreibung und Contrafaitung der vornehmbsten und bekantisten ...
EditorialBeauvais and Compiegne, City of Beauvais and Compi?gne in France, Fig. 80, according to p. 96, Martin Zeiller: Topographia Galliae, oder, Beschreibung und Contrafaitung der vornehmbsten und bekantisten Oerter in dem m?chtigen und grossen K?nigreich Fra...
EditorialThe Countess Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) 1837-1899, famous beauty and inofficial envoy of Italian King Victor-Emanuel, with mission to seduce Napoleon III and win him for the Italian cause. Canvas.
EditorialNapoleon Bonaparte's first interview with his second wife, Maria Louise, Duchess of Palma, at Compiegne, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815.