READING LIGHT FROM THE EMPEROR'S CABINET Covered with green morocco decorated with an eagle and four crowned N's in gold, bordered by a frieze. Spine with crown and four laces in unbleached cloth. 19.5 x 13 cm Used A.B.E. Overdecorated at the end of the 19th century. Biography : Georgine de Chastellux married Count Charles Huchet de la Bédoyère, colonel of the 112th Line, in 1813. Thanks to the Chastellux family's friendship with King Louis XVIII, La Bédoyère was appointed Maréchal de Camp under the Restoration, but he rallied to the Emperor during the Hundred Days. Sentenced to death, he was shot on the Plaine de Grenelle, thus becoming, along with Ney, a martyr of the "White Terror". Provenance : - Countess de La Bedoyère According to the inventories of the Napoleonic Museum in Monaco, this binding came from the reading cabinets of Emperor Napoleon I. - Former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco (3rd sale, lot 201) A book-cover from the Emperor's study