One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series....
The Chevron insignia is a universal symbol of heraldry and also that of the “Corporal” in military rank insignia. Famous Corporals in military history include Corporal O’Reilly in M*A*S*H and of course “The Little Corporal” himself Napoleon Bonaparte or otherwise AKA His Imperial Majesty Napoleon I, By the Grace of God and the Constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French.
Defeated at Waterloo by a coalition force(!) he spent his last six years incarcerated at possibly the most remote island in the world, St Helena. Right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa it is so remote that it doesn’t even have an airport. Napoleon spent his last years gardening and writing his memoirs.
They make for fasciniating reading and are available on line under The Gutenburg Project. It runs in to four volumes and the chapters relating to the Battle of Waterloo are fascinating particularly his abdication…..”My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son under the title of NAPOLEON II EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.”
Your scribe has in the past been accused of being a Francophile….I have always driven a French car…..I have a French dog…..I drink Champagne…ah, so be it.
Todays links come from the Marche aux Puces in Paris and are a red glass Chevron motif set in solid silver. They are worn with a Brooks Brothers cotton shirt and a red silk Gianfranco Ferre neck tie.
Til later
ONWARD
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