Before the fall of his empire in 1870 Napoleon III toured France in locomotive luxury. Two years earlier it wasall change for one of his bedchamber carriages and decorator du jour Félix-Alfred Ternisien was called on to pick
its fixtures and furnishings. Could it be the finest imperial interior never made? Nobody knows but the model isstored in Maison Braqueniéâs archive where Marie-France Boyer gets the inside track. Photography: Eric Morin
MAJESTY IN MOTION