SNC037-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Paint chips on horse.
Del Prado SNC037 French General Caulaincourt, 1812
While Napoleon and his new bride, the Austrian princess Marie-Louise, visited sights around his empire in 1810 and 1811, the relationship with Russia was deteriorating. Tsar Alexander had been under pressure ever since Tilsit in 1807 to break the restrictions on trade that the Treaty imposed. His first response was to permit open smuggling, but this was soon decried by the French and he looked for another answer. Alexander resented Napoleons actions intensely. He was even affronted by the French Emperors marriage to an Austrian princess. He declared in December of 1810 that he would no longer refuse to trade with neutrals, thus threatening Napoleons Continental blockade.