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Empress Josephine's Coronation Slippers, 1804

Photograph Copyright of Musée des Arts de la Mode, Paris

Empress Josephine's Coronation Slippers, 1804, Musée des Arts de la Mode, UCAD Collection

Description from Bourhis, Katell le et al. The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815. NY: Abrams, 1989. 46.

"Empress Josephine's white taffeta coronation slippers, embroidered with gold--strips, threads, sequins, and cannetillés--in a bee-and-star motif."

 

 

 

 

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