3-047-147 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Napoleon the Great, Emperor of the French, in the uniform of a Chasseur of the Guards, with the Star of the Legion of Honour', 1925. Illustration of a wax figure at Madame Tussauds, a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French sculptor Marie Tussaud. 'Napoleon Buonaparte (a surname afterwards contracted to Bonaparte) was born at Ajaccio, Corsica, 15th August, 1769, and died at St. Helena, 5th May, 1821'. From "Madame Tussaud's: The Palace of Enchantment" described by Capt. Edric Vredenburg, illustrated by Howard Davie, [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1925]