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# The celebrated French antiques dealer and ardent admirer of Napoleon Pierre-Jean Chalençon has put around 100 items from his famous collection up for auction
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/izvestnyi-frantsuzskii-antikvar-i-strastnyi-poklonnik-napoleona-per-zhan-shalanson-vystavil-na-auktsion-okolo-100-predmetov-iz-svoei-znamenitoi-kollektsii/
- Published: 2025-05-27T06:41:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:58.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Coming Up, Art, Monarchies, Observations, Paris

The sale will take place on 25 June at Sotheby’s in Paris. Among the lots:

**Napoleon’s bicorne hat**, made by his court hatter Poupard and presented by General Mouton.

**A campaign bed** with a canopy.

**A ceremonial sword and sceptre** used at Napoleon’s coronation in Notre-Dame de Paris in 1804.

**A portrait of Napoleon in his coronation robes**, produced in the workshop of François-Pascal-Simon Gérard.

**Personal effects**, including socks bearing Napoleon’s initials, the certificate of his marriage to Josephine and a codicil to his will written on the island of Saint Helena.

I would not buy a thing, and you?

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