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Description Napoleon desired to present Captain Maitland with a box containing his portrait set in diamonds. On Maitland's declining, in the circumstances, to accept any present of value, the Emperor begged him to keep as a souvenir a tumbler from his travelling case, bearing the crown and cipher of the Empress Josephine. (Description from page xiii of source).
Date published 1904
Source 1904 edition of Frederick Lewis Maitland's 1826 book, The Surrender of Napoleon, p. 202.[1]
Author "Photograph from the original at Lindores", p. xxiii

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