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Napoleon's fauteuil: from Paris to Point Breeze.
In December 1867, the New-York Historical Society in New York City was given the majestic French armchair (fanteuil) illustrated in Plate III. A letter accompanying the donation asserted that it was the "armchair in which Napoleon Bonaparte had presided as First Consul of the Republic of France," and further stated that it "was brought from France by Joseph Bonaparte (Comte de Survilliers)." Proudly displayed at the historical society after its an-ival, the Napoleonic chair was relegated to storage by the middle of the twentieth century, along with other examples of then-unfashionable high-style European decorative arts. Curators rediscovered the fauteuil in the late ...
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