A palace for the Emperor Napoléon Ier

September 14, 2021 January 3, 2022 Exhibition has ended

The aim of the exhibition is to showcase Napoléon's work at Fontainebleau and to analyze the way in which the Emperor invested the château. Through more than two hundred works from the Bellifontain collection (collections, libraries and archives), but also from French and foreign public collections, the sumptuousness of Joséphine's fittings, the luxury of the furniture intended for the palace, the extraordinary library of the Emperor or the transformation of the François Ier gallery and the major projects abandoned after the fall of the regime.

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Notebook Château de Fontainebleau

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This notebook was published for the exhibition "A palace for the Emperor. Napoleon I at Fontainebleau" at the château de Fontainebleau from September 15th 2021 to January 3rd 2022.

Recto : Detail of the central motif of the pilasters of the courtyard gate.

Verso : The Salon of Abdication, on the pedestal table in the foreground: The Emperor's writing desk at Fontainebleau in gilt and crystal, 1813 of Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764-1813Photo) - © Photo Rmn-GP (Château de Fontainebleau). Gérard Blot

Emperor Napoleon's former inner drawing room, it is the first really ornate room after the antechamber and shows a marked difference compared to the rest of the apartments. The white woodwork is complemented by gold lining and framed by large crimson brocade panels. The same fabric covers the salon's gilded wooden furniture, and the fireplace is decorated with ornate scrolls, rows of pearls, bees, eagles and a thunder bolt.
It was on the small pedestal table in the middle of the salon that one of the greatest episodes in the 'French history happened: Napoleon Istsigned the Act of Abdication between 4th and 6th April 1814 under pressure from his marshals to relinquish power.

Notebook - 64 ruled pages
Printed in France with respect of the environnementales conditions. Paper from sustainably managed forests

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