
Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator


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Provenance
General Emile Fleury (according to a plaque on the case).
Private UK collection.
Inscriptions: 'Smoking pipe of General Fleury, the last representative of the Second French Empire in Russia'.
Introduced into the circle of Napoleon III as a young officer, Emile Fleury became a general and the premier aide-de-camp of the Emperor. After the fall of the Second Empire, he was the French ambassador to Russia.