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Article: A collector in hot pursuit of the emperor: in only a few years Pierre-Jean Chalencon has assembled one of the world's finest new Napoleonica collections. Christopher Woodward visited him in his apartment in Paris to talk about his passion for Napoleon and the exhibition of his treasures that has just begun a six-year tour of the USA.
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- October 1, 2005
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Pierre-Jean Chalencon is only thirty-five years old but in his apartment in Paris he has assembled one of the most important new Napoleonic collections in the world. On the day I visited he was awaiting the packers who will take 300 objects for a tour of his collection in the USA; he is also a major lender to the epic 'Nelson and Napoleon' exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London. Dressed in jeans, loafers and an open-necked shirt, he looks a classic bon chic bon genre Parisian (Fig. 1). With a tiny mobile buzzing every two minutes, he might be about to launch a new restaurant or venture-capital project. 'Yes, I have a job and a boss,' he says: 'Napoleon'.
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