Napoleon with Johannot
Napoleon with Johannot, Johannot with us can be said about the paper that we present below. We have already written about paper several times on this blog Johannot , which we used in our edition of Zygmunt Krasiński's Nie-Boska Komedia or in Między Konstytucję a Targowica by Angela Soltys. We presented the history of the creation of this paper , as well as some books published in this way.
Quite unexpectedly, "Uncle Google" has dropped off photos of a letter signed by C. Cornetto on September 29, 1812. The letter is written on paper decorated with an impressive watermark depicting Napoleon Bonaparte ( Bounaparte as William Pitt would probably say) with the signature: Napoleon Empereur des Francais, Roi d'Italie and the imperial eagle. On the margin of the paper there is another filigree: F. Johannot . Well, apparently the Emperor of the French himself must have had a taste for the products of the Annonay paper mill.
You can say many bad things about Napoleon, but one thing is certain: he had good taste. In a word: Napoleon with Johannot, Johannot with us!
