Napoleon gifts to Josephine?

Question

Can someone write me all the gifts Napoleon had gave to Josephine? I know about the golden medallion, but I want to know the rest of gifts.

Answer 1

"When Napoleon returned from his campaign in Egypt, he brought back gifts of Kashmiri paisley shawls for his empress, Josephine."

This is the Napoleon III Pavilion outside the Royal Palace. Napoleon originally gave it as a gift to Josephine,

When she returned home that evening, she had an urgent message from Tiffany & Co. asking her to call back right away. She returned the call and was told they had some extraordinary news to tell her. They sent a limo to pick her up the next morning. When she arrived the locket had been open and engraved inside was the inscription, "Josephine, my love Napoleon." It was authenticated and determined that it was indeed a gift to Josephine from Napoleon sometime in the late 1790s. She was offered a huge sum of money from Tiffany & Co. but wound up selling it to a museum in New York City for an undisclosed amount of money."

"When Napoleon married Josephine, she wore violets, and on each anniversary Josephine received a bouquet of violets. Following Napoleon’s lead, the French Bonapartists chose the violet as their emblem, and nicknamed Napoleon "Corporal Violet". In 1814, Napoleon asked to visit Josephine's tomb before being exiled to the Island of St. Helena. When he died, he wore a locket around his neck that contained violets he had picked from Josephine’s gravesite."

The Smithsonian jewels aren't Josephine's

"After Napoleon married his second wife, the Archduchess Marie-Louise, two new matching sets of jewelry (called ‘parures’) entered the Imperial collection. On 16 January 1811, jeweller Francois-Regnault Nitot delivered to the Emperor a diamond-ruby parure (coronet, tiara, necklace, comb, earrings, belt and a pair of bracelets) and a similar emerald-diamond parure."

Sorry - I can't find a complete listing anywhere

"The imposing portrait of Henri François Riesener, which is originated in 1806, illustrates empress Joséphine >>, wearing an impressive sapphire parure, consisting of a very fine necklace, a pair of earrings, two bracelets, two brooches and a belt with a large sapphire buckle.
There was surely manufactured a tiara and a comb to match the parure, but as a sign of her outstanding position as an empress, she has chosen to wear a crown together with a golden tiara, a combination which was very common during the Napoleonic period.

After the divorce of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1810, Joséphine kept almost all her jewellery, which she received from Napoléon.

In the already mentioned inventory of B.A. Marguerite, are listed the most magnificent parures, which were completely present at all, up to the sapphire parure, which consisted at this time just of tiara, a necklace and two pairs of earrings.

What had happened to the remaining pieces?

It seems that the empress had given during her lifetime parts of the sapphire parure to her children.
Hortense received the large sapphire clasp of the girdle. In the sale of 1821 there was this sapphire as well, but it is now set as the centrepiece of a brooch. But this large sapphire was not in her bequest of 1814.
Hortense has stated to Louis-Philippe that all sapphires were in the former possession of the late Empress Joséphine.

And did she give the belt and maybe the comb to her son Eugène, the Duke of Leuchtenberg? His daughter Josefina, the later Queen of Sweden might have used these sapphires in combination with a pearl tiara in her possession for making a complete new sapphire parure - the "Leuchtenberg Sapphires".

Diadème : H. : 6,20 cm. ; L. : 10,70 cm.-
Necklace : H. : 3,40 cm. ; L. : 40 cm. -
Brooche : H. : 10,60 cm. ; L. : 5,10 cm. -
Earpendants: H. : 5,10 cm. ; L. : 2,20 cm. -
source: Louvre"

"Eugénie Pearls · pearls included in a large jewel collection from the French Crown Jewels, auctioned at the Palace of the Tuileries in 1887. Many had been purchased by Napoleon Bonaparte for his wives Josephine and Marie Louise. Another collection of Empress Eugénie’s personal jewels was willed to her friend, the Philadelphia dentist Thomas Evans, and now resides at the University of Pennsylvania (Dickenson, 1968)."

Answer 2

i ve seen a two gun set of mini deringer style guns,but made in 1800 or so,aparrantly they are the finest ,hade made ,state of the art handguns for their day

Answer 3

"Peu importe où vous allez, mais loin de là, une partie de moi sera avec vous et une partie d'entre vous, avec moi, va rester. Mais, à sa voir, c'était l'aimer, l'amour, mais elle, et son amour pour toujours Quant à moi, de vous aimer seul, pour vous faire plaisir, à ne rien faire qui serait en contradiction avec vos souhaits, c'est mon destin et le sens de ma vie ."

Answer 4

well i know of a necklace and a crown, on display at the smithsonian museum of natural hitsory