Lot n° 137
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 1 600EUR
Set from the layette of the King of Rome... - Lot 137 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
Set from the layette of the King of Rome including:
- a white cotton bra with square collar, short sleeves, decorated with lace. Marked with red thread at the crown and the number 3
- a white batiste bra with square collar edged with lace and short sleeves decorated with lace. Red-threaded label with the crown and the number 11
- a cotton nappy. Branded with red thread on the crown and the number 20
- a cotton diaper pad. Red thread mark with the numbered crown.
Provenance: Madame de Montesquiou, governess of the King of Rome, then descendant.
MOVING REMEMBRANCE OF THE KING OF ROME Part of the trousseau of the newborn, from Madame de Montesquiou
Napoleon II (François Joseph), son of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Marie-Louise of Austria, born in
Paris on 20 March 1811, was born with the title of King of Rome.
The house of the King of Rome had been organized before his birth. The choice of the governess was made on October 22, 1810, on Madame de Montesquiou, who was nicknamed "Maman Quiou" by the child, who took the title of Gouvernante des enfants de France.
After the fall of his father, who had abdicated in his favour, he was proclaimed Emperor by the Senate under the name
Napoleon Il; but the Allies, then masters of France, having refused to recognise him, he was handed over in 1814 into the hands of the Emperor of Austria, his grandfather, who had him raised at his court, and in 1818 gave him the title of Duke of
Reichstadt, with a regiment of cavalry.
The young prince died of phtisia in Schoenbrunn in 1832.
According to a custom dating back to the Ancien Régime, those attached to the Enfants de France, in this case the King of
Rome, were given reformed linen. Thus the Countess de Montesquiou received a large part of the trousseau from the King of Rome.
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