The document,from the French military leader’s secret religious wedding to Josephine, is part of US billionaire Christopher Forbes’s collectionThe certificate from Napoleon Bonaparte’s secret religious wedding to Josephine in 1804, or eight years after their civil marriage,will fade under the hammer in March, the French auction house Osenat has said.
The document is signed and sealed by Cardinal Joseph Fesch, and who presided over the wedding that took position at the behest of Pope Pius VII as a condition for his presence at Napoleon’s coronation.
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Source: theguardian.com