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SOUVENIRS DE LOUIS-ÉTIENNE SAINT-DENIS DIT LE MAMELUK ALI (1788 - 1856)
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SOUVENIRS DE LOUIS-ÉTIENNE SAINT-DENIS DIT LE MAMELUK ALI (1788 - 1856)
- An autograph drawing with the monogram of his wife Marie Hall, increased by a word of the emperor: " amoureux " accompanied by an autograph explanatory note of Louis Étienne Saint-Denis " Mamelouk Ali " below transcribed.
Boxes: "Note.
At a time when I was absent from the library, the Emperor came in, leaving his two small rooms and went to my small table to see where I was with the work he had given me. On my desk, there was a quarter of paper on which I had amused myself by drawing with a pencil the figure of my wife, and to better follow my pretender, because then, I believe, I was not yet married.
He exima the image, what I suppose, and wrote the word in love. Then I returned. The Emperor had passed and he had gone to the garden. As I sat down to get back to work, my eyes immediately fell on the square of paper and I saw what the Emperor had written. I gave a few more strokes of the pencil to finish my little drawing, which I hurriedly clamped so that no one would have the idea of appropriating it.
I was quite happy to be able to keep it, it is part of the relics that I have of the Emperor. From time to time I look at it and I remember St. Helena and the library where I used to stand and above all the one I used to see at all times of the day and night."
- A yellow gold ring decorated with millegrain flowers that belonged to Napoleon I and that was offered as a souvenir to Mamelouk Ali on St. Helena, probably on the occasion of his marriage to Marie Hall (marriage on October 16, 1819).
Net weight : 3 g.
The ring is mentioned in Mamelouk Ali's memoirs Souvenirs sur l'empereur Napoléon: "Some time before, he had given a ring to my wife." [p. 236 in the 2002 reprint by Arléa].
PROVENANCE
- Louis-Etienne Saint-Denis known as Mameluk Ali (1788-1856) then by descent.
- An autograph drawing with the monogram of his wife Marie Hall, increased by a word of the emperor: " amoureux " accompanied by an autograph explanatory note of Louis Étienne Saint-Denis " Mamelouk Ali " below transcribed.
Boxes: "Note.
At a time when I was absent from the library, the Emperor came in, leaving his two small rooms and went to my small table to see where I was with the work he had given me. On my desk, there was a quarter of paper on which I had amused myself by drawing with a pencil the figure of my wife, and to better follow my pretender, because then, I believe, I was not yet married.
He exima the image, what I suppose, and wrote the word in love. Then I returned. The Emperor had passed and he had gone to the garden. As I sat down to get back to work, my eyes immediately fell on the square of paper and I saw what the Emperor had written. I gave a few more strokes of the pencil to finish my little drawing, which I hurriedly clamped so that no one would have the idea of appropriating it.
I was quite happy to be able to keep it, it is part of the relics that I have of the Emperor. From time to time I look at it and I remember St. Helena and the library where I used to stand and above all the one I used to see at all times of the day and night."
- A yellow gold ring decorated with millegrain flowers that belonged to Napoleon I and that was offered as a souvenir to Mamelouk Ali on St. Helena, probably on the occasion of his marriage to Marie Hall (marriage on October 16, 1819).
Net weight : 3 g.
The ring is mentioned in Mamelouk Ali's memoirs Souvenirs sur l'empereur Napoléon: "Some time before, he had given a ring to my wife." [p. 236 in the 2002 reprint by Arléa].
PROVENANCE
- Louis-Etienne Saint-Denis known as Mameluk Ali (1788-1856) then by descent.