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[NAPOLEON I]: (1769-1821) The Emperor´´ s New Clothes - [NAPOLEON I]: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. Louis Constant Wairy (1778-1845) The Emperor Napoleon's Head Valet. D.S., Constant , two pages, 8vo, n.p. (Paris?), 1806, in French. The manuscript document is an invoice ( ´Memoire des ouvrages faits et fournis pour Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi´ ) issued by Delille, dyers and cleaners, of 27 Rue des Grands Augustins, for the cleaning of various articles of clothing belonging to Napoleon, described as ´Vingt quatre vestes et vingt quatre culottes de cachimire blanc netoyees. Une culotte de soie blanche netoyee´ (Translation: ´Twenty-four jackets and twenty-four white cashmere breeches cleaned. One pair of white silk breeches, cleaned´ ) delivered on 30th August 1806, and ´Vingt cinq vestes et vingt cinq culottes de cachimire blanc netoyees. Une culotte de velour de soie blanche netoyee´ (Translation: ´Twenty-five jackets and twenty-five white cashmere breeches, cleaned. One pair of white silk velvet breeches, cleaned´ ) delivered on 20th September 1806. The total of the invoice amounts to 153 francs, which Constant verifies ( ´Certifie veritable´ ) at the foot. At the base of the document, and continuing to the second page, appears an autograph statement signed ( ´Remusat´ ) by Auguste Laurent de Remusat (1762-1823) French politician who served as First Chamberlain to Napoleon I. Remusat´s statement, dated at Paris, 27th January 1806, declares ´Verifie et autorisant memoire montant a la somme de cent cinquante trois francs´ (Translation: ´Verified and authorised memorandum amounting to the sum of one hundred and fifty three francs´ ). With blank integral leaf. VG Louis-Constant Wairy (1778-1845) known as Constant was the first valet of Napoleon in 1806 and 1814. Constant wrote his memoirs, entitled Mémoires de Constant, premier valet de chambre de l'Empereur , reporting on Napoleon´s private life, his family and court.