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Chateau de Sache, where Honore de Balzac spent several weeks a year. The salon, with furniture and wall paper of 1803. Left: study of a head of Balzac by Rodin.
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Chateau de Sache, where Honore de Balzac spent several weeks a year. The salon,...

Chateau de Nohant, home of French romantic writer George Sand (1804-1876). When Napoleon III made himself Emperor, the liberal Sand retired to Nohant for good. The boudoir, in the background the desk on which she wrote the novel "Indiana."
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Chateau de Nohant, home of French romantic writer George Sand (1804-1876). When...

Chateau de Versailles: the "Salon des Dames" at the time of King Louis-Philippe (1773-1850), with the original furniture and (foreground) embroideries by Queen Amelie and her ladies.
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Chateau de Versailles: the "Salon des Dames" at the time of King Louis-Philippe...

Chateau de Versailles: the gaming room with the chess board of King Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) and original furniture and lamps.
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Chateau de Versailles: the gaming room with the chess board of King Louis-Phil...

Revolution of 1848: The poet Alphonse de Lamartine rejects the red flag of the extreme left; the blue- white-red Tricolore becomes the national flag of the Second Republic. Oil, 298 x 580 cm
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Revolution of 1848: The poet Alphonse de Lamartine rejects the red flag of...

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, prince president and later Emperor III, presents the Legion d'honneur to a worker in St.Quentin-sur-l'Aisne, on 9.6.1850; 1851 Oil on canvas.
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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, prince president and later Emperor III, presents th...

Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie. "Love-seat" and small table.
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Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence of Napoleon III and Empress...

Salle des jeux; a salon where Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie met their friends for evening games; the famous "dictee" imagined by poet Prosper Merimee took place here in the Chateau de Compiegne, favourite residence of Napoleon III.
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Salle des jeux; a salon where Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie met their friend...

Empress Eugenie's clothes,umbrella and walking stick in her dressing room, Chateau de CompiŠgne,France.
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Empress Eugenie's clothes,umbrella and walking stick in her dressing room, Ch...

The Countess Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) 1837-1899, famous beauty and inofficial envoy of Italian King Victor-Emanuel, with mission to seduce Napoleon III and win him for the Italian cause. Canvas
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The Countess Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) 1837-1899, famous beauty and inoffi...

The salon of Princess Mathilde, daughter of king Jerome and Queen Catherine of Wuerttemberg, at the rue de Courcelle in Paris, 1859. Oil on canvas.
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The salon of Princess Mathilde, daughter of king Jerome and Queen Catherine of W...

The dining room of Princess Mathilde, daughter of king Jerome, brother of Napoleon I, and Queen Catherine of Wuerttemberg, at the rue de Courcelles in Paris; 1854 Oil on canvas.
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The dining room of Princess Mathilde, daughter of king Jerome, brother of Napol...