Photo: Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, Malmaison France.
A toilette mirror with a reconstruction of Joséphine’s pearl parure.
Photo: Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, Malmaison France.
A bill from Au Grand Turc, the most fashionable couture house in Joséphine’s Paris. Joséphine’s enormous debts were notorious as she spent vast amounts on clothes, shoes and accessories and never managed to stay within the confines of the already generous allowance bestowed upon her by Napoléon. This particular bill is for ‘un schal de cachemire vert pistache vendu à sa majesté impératrice et reine’ (a pistachio green Cashmere shawl) and was issued on the 6th April 1809.
Photo: Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, Malmaison France.
Photo: Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, Malmaison France.
Crystal perfume bottles that once held Joséphine’s exquisite jasmine, lavender, lily and violet scents
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