Napoleon’s Hat for Christie’s Auction
Published October 15th, 2005
A tricolor Bicorn hat said to have been worn by Napoleon is one lot in Christie’s Trafalgar Bicentenary auction on October 19th.
“The hat, reputedly Napoleon’s, is of a style (laid down by in the designs for the official costumes of government by the painter David) consistent with those worn by French officers during the Consulate and beginning of the 1st Empire, apart from the cockade (a patriotic symbol which emerged when worn by the Paris Militia, first combining the red and blue of the House of Orléans and the City of Paris, to which the Marquis de La Fayette added the white of the Bourbons, to make the tricolour), riband and button.”
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