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Premium PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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FULL REGAL DRESS OF HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885), MEMBER …
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315
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FULL REGAL DRESS OF HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885), MEMBER …
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
FULL REGAL DRESS OF HENRI DUPUY DE LOME (1816–1885), MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE.
In national blue cloth, richly embroidered with oak and laurel leaves; collar, front panel, facings, pockets and waist bow.
Lined in black satin.
Mark of the tailor DUSAUTOY, tailor to His Majesty the Emperor.
Second Empire period. After 1861.
Holes and signs of wear.
Expert: Arnaud de Gouvion Saint-Cyr
Provenance | Henri Dupuy de Lôme, then by descent
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the Second Empire navy. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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