It all starts with disasters.
The Mobilier national exhibition at the Galerie des Gobelins reveals the ruins of the Empire from the very first room: images of the burnt down Tuileries Palace, bust of Napoleon shattered… If it is easy to enter on one level today. even in the Napoleonic decorations at Fontainebleau or Malmaison, they give only an imperfect idea of what the arts of the time were.
The salons of Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries, the fittings of the Château de Meudon intended for the King of Rome will forever be missing.
Thierry Sarmant, the director of the national furniture collections, brought together the elite of specialists to discuss these great destroyed decorations, but above all to understand them.
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Many pieces of furniture have escaped the disasters, numerous enough to recreate the atmosphere of the Council of Ministers, the spectacular throne room, to convey Joséphine's taste, to let the public enter the "apricot salon" of Saint-Cloud.
Because "Empire green" is a
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