187 - [Frédéric MASSON].

[Frédéric MASSON]. [Presentation of his academician's sword or the presentation of a sword]. (Paris, ca. 1900). Large albumen print (24 x 30.8 cm) in black on cardboard (slight wear on the edges, a small cut without loss of image in the upper right corner). Description: Photograph taken at the home of the historian and Academician Frédéric Masson, likely on the occasion of the presentation of his academician’s sword. Pencil annotation on the reverse: “Mr. and Mrs. Frédéric Masson, Rue de la Beaume, in the gallery (sic) of the ‘Souvenirs of Napoleon I’ collection.” The Rue de la Beaume was one of the historian’s addresses. Accompanied by his wife, he is seen receiving the object from an elderly man amidst a gathering of men in formal attire who are looking either at the camera or at the historian, in a room filled with Napoleonic collectibles. The presentation of his academician’s sword (the sword, now preserved at the Royal Abbey of Chaalis by the Institut de France) or of a sword linked to imperial history Frédéric Masson was elected to the Académie française on June 18, 1903, and inducted on January 28, 1904. Enclosed: [Hunts in the Oise]. (ca. 1900). 2 panoramic silver-print photographs (colors slightly faded) from the period (7.5 x 30 cm): a hound hunt in the Paris region near a castle and its moat. Numerous figures and hunters in hunting attire; a swimming stag. By Frédéric Masson or someone in his circle.