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Description: | Charles Louis Napoleon Buonaparte (1808-1873), Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, was the third son of Louis Buonaparte, ex-king of Holland. His mother was Hortense, the daughter of the Empress Josephine by her first marriage. Napoleon III married Eugenie Marie de Guzman, comtesse de Teba in 1853. Eugenie was a cousin of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer who was responsible for the construction of the Suez Canal. The Emperor and Empress visited the British Court in 1855 at which time the Queen invested his Imperial Majesty with the insignia of a Knight of the Garter. Their reception and entertainment took place at the Guildhall.
Medal, to commemorate, the investiture of the insignia of a Knight of the Garter to Napoleon 111 of France. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Medals | Temporal: | 19th April 1855
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Benjamin Wyon | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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