Napoleon’s berlin
The mystery of the spoils at Waterloo
7 th March – 8th July 2012
The Exhibition organized by the Museum of the Légion d’honneur retraces the adventurous path followed by Napoleon’s berlin captured and plundered by the Prussians after the battle of Waterloo.
Among the looted objects there were several of Napoleon I’s personal decorations some of them exhibited after at a Museum in Berlin and, taken to the URSS, in 1945, after the capture of the III Reich’s capital by the Red Army.
For long considered as lost, they were found among the reserves of the Moscow State Historical Museum which now generously lent them to the Museum of the Légion d0Honneur for this unique exhibition
But apart from these, other objects and decorations belonging to the Emperor and looted at Waterloo, which are in private collections, are also exhibited.
Accompanying the Exhibition the Museum promotes the edition of a Catalogue, under the direction of Professor Jean Tullard, to be published by Albin Michel.
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