It is the age of Napoleon that is most vividly represented at the impressive exhibition of the jewellery house of Chaumet at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo

It is the age of Napoleon that is most vividly represented at the impressive exhibition of the jewellery house of Chaumet at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo. The history of the house is inseparable from the reign of Bonaparte and his empresses: the many gifts ordered by Napoleon for the women he loved are the most brilliant treasures in the history of the Chaumet brand.

The Chaumet family gave its name to the jewellery business in the 1880s. According to legend, a hundred years earlier Napoleon had noticed the young jeweller Marie-Étienne Nitot, who had caught his runaway horse. Besides the courage attributed to him, Nitot had been an apprentice to Marie Antoinette's jeweller, which suited the ambitions of the new emperor very well. In 1802 Napoleon remembered Nitot and commissioned from him a ceremonial diamond sword set with the 140-carat Golconda diamond; the artist then created the imperial crown and the imperial sword, and became jeweller to the imperial court.

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