216. Suite of four armchairs in light wood and rosewood fillets, cabriolet back decorated decorated with palmettes, scrolled armrests, console legs, inlaid with amaranth on a sycamore background. Two armchairs with the ink stencil mark of LEMARCHAND. Charles X period. (Reinforcing brackets, insolated parts, small veneer chips, traces of use, very damaged upholstery). H : 92 cm - W : 55 cm - D : 56 cm Louis-Edouard LEMARCHAND (1795-1872). In 1828, Lemarchand set up shop at 17, rue des Tournelles in Paris, and practiced until 1852, when he sold his workshops to his partner. He made a name for himself by creating Napoleon's coffin to bring back the prisoner's ashes from St. Helena, commissioned in 1840 by the July government, of which he was the supplier.