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The Chaumet exhibition presents a magnificent tradition dating back to the seventeenth century: the corbeille de mariage, or wedding basket. The set of gifts that the bridegroom prepared for his bride was presented in a special casket in the shape of a vase with a lid. The chest was usually
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The Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise, by the artist Georges Rouget. The wedding of 1 April 1810 took place in the Louvre, where the architects Percier and Fontaine had rebuilt the Salon Carré as a chapel. The painting captures the moment when Cardinal Fesch blesses the couple; Napoleon and
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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
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Jacques-Louis David, 1807. Sketch for the portrait of Napoleon in his coronation robes. On Napoleon's head is the golden wreath made for his coronation on 2 December 1804 by the jeweller Martin-Guillaume Biennais. The laurel wreath points us to Napoleon's favourite style, the antique.
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Our stroll through the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco continues. In the frame: equipment for exploring the seabed and taking soil samples, along with preserved marine fauna from the time of the museum's founder, Prince Albert I, who, after service in the French navy, devoted his leisure to a
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A rather large albatross. I did not know it, but the wingspan of Diomedea exulans reaches more than 3 metres
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The staircases of Monaco's Oceanographic Museum are adorned with the shells of giant molluscs. Remember the tridacna that serves as a holy water stoup in Saint-Sulpice?
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The Oceanographic Museum, founded in the late nineteenth century by Prince Albert I, occupies an enormous building overhanging the sea. Inside are a colossal collection of stuffed marine animals, equipment for the study of the ocean, an aquarium, interactive exhibits and a collection of personal belongings and instruments of the
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The ocean sunfish, also known as the mola, also known as the headfish, tells us that the plastic bags in the ocean, which she mistakes for food, are killing her. Very sad
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Just look at those eyes! This charmer of a flying fish all but begs to be picked up and cuddled
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