The scenography and the 150 jewels, paintings and objects that make up the exhibition “Josephine and Napoleon, an (extra) ordinary story” have been installed for more than a month in the salons of Chaumet, Place Vendôme.
The dates of the event have been pushed back a few weeks due to the latest lockdown.
The most valuable coins have been waiting in chests.
They have just come out for the opening which will finally take place on May 19.
“In addition to the commemorations scheduled in various museums and emblematic institutions, we wanted to mount this exhibition at home, in our restored historic salons
,” underlines Jean-Marc Mansvelt, Chairman of Chaumet.
Our founder, Marie-Étienne Nitot, was the Emperor's jeweler.
He is notably the craftsman of the coronation sword that Napoleon had set with the famous Regent diamond.
The following year, in May 1805, his eldest son and partner François-Régnault Nitot, on his way to Rome to deliver an emerald tiara to the
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