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Napoleon's stockings brought up to date

2021-05-07T13:54:04.221Z


Driven by its community, the French brand Mes Chaussettes Rouges is launching a set of models inspired by a pair bought at auction and having belonged to the Emperor. A curiosity that attracts customers from all over the world.


It will not have escaped anyone's notice that there is a tendency towards fetishism among fans of Napoleon Bonaparte, which sometimes pushes them to splurge.

We think for example of this saber, carried by the Emperor in Marengo, auctioned in 2007 for 4.8 million euros, or this felt hat, abandoned in Waterloo and found in Lyon, where it was sold in 2018 for 350,000 euros.

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To a lesser extent, it was recently Vincent Metzger and Jacques Tiberghien, the co-founders of Mes Chaussettes Rouges, who put their hands in their pockets to win auctions around a Napoleonic object.

At stake?

A pair of white silk socks, having belonged to the native of Ajaccio, for which they spent 9,700 euros.

This, authenticated by a seal of his contemporary Joachim Clary, who would have received it from the very hands of Napoleon's mother, would have spent many years in the Monegasque princely collections, before being sold a few months ago.

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Source: lefigaro

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