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Wikipedia October 19, 2026 at 05:23 PM

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Claim
The "Throne of Dagobert" was coarsely repaired and used for the coronation of Napoleon.
Correction

This misstates how Napoleon used the Throne of Dagobert. Official BnF records say it was used by Napoleon on August 16, 1804 at the camp of Boulogne for the distribution of the first Legion of Honour insignia, not at his coronation.

Full reasoning

The claim is contradicted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France's own descriptions of the Throne of Dagobert.

  • The BnF museum page says the throne "was used a last time by Napoleon I during the award of the first insignia of the Légion d'honneur at the camp of Boulogne, on 16 August 1804" ("Il a été utilisé une dernière fois par Napoléon Ier lors de la remise des premiers insignes de la Légion d'honneur au camp de Boulogne, le 16 août 1804.").
  • The BnF catalogue entry for the object likewise states that in 1804 Napoleon had it brought to the camp of Boulogne so he could sit on it during the presentation of the first Legion of Honour insignia to the army.

Napoleon's coronation took place later, on December 2, 1804, at Notre-Dame de Paris. So the throne's documented Napoleonic use was a different ceremony, months before the coronation. That makes the article's statement that it was used "for the coronation of Napoleon" factually incorrect.

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