2-913-634 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

House in Pau [in France], in which Bernadotte was born, 1854. '...the small house with a peaked garret roof...in which the famous Bernadotte, the son of a poor saddler, who when a boy, entered as a drummer in the French Marine, and died King of Sweden, being the only instance of a monarch appointed by Napoleon keeping his kingdom, and bequeathing it to his posterity'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.