12/17/2023 0 Comments Unavowed guard uniform![]() “e introduced elaborate new uniforms, using embroidery, lace, plumes, breastplates, dolmans, towering helmets, bear and tiger skins, more lavishly than the royal army ever had.” (5) He established detailed and extravagant dress codes for his court and his army. Napoleon had another luxurious costume made for his coronation as King of Italy in 1805, this time in green. Napoleon in his coronation robes by François Gérard, 1805 They were all three dressed in their grand costume of scarlet velvet, richly embroidered with gold. Here, in a splendid salon, stood Bonaparte, between Cambacères, the second consul, and le Brun the third. English visitor John Lemaistre, admitted to an audience at the Tuileries Palace in March 1802, wrote: ![]() One of the early decrees of the consulate mandated the creation of uniforms for consuls and ministers. The position was considered a civil, not a military one. In November 1799, Napoleon became the First Consul of France through a coup d’état. In August 1798, new regulations introduced a similar, double-breasted general’s coat, which Napoleon wore at the Battle of Marengo in 1800. (2) This is the uniform Napoleon wore during the Italian campaign in 1796-97 and the Egyptian campaign in 1798-99. This included a single-breasted blue woollen coat with a red collar, red cuffs with white flaps, gold oak-leaf embroidery on the collar, cuffs, pockets and front and rear openings, and a red-and-white sash with gold trim. As such, he wore the uniform established by the French army regulations of January 1796. In 1795 he became general of division, and, in March 1796, commander-in-chief of France’s Army of Italy. ![]() ![]() Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general in 1793. Napoleon in his general’s uniform, by Andrea Appiani, 1800 ![]()
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