Louis Ducruet and Pierre-Jean Chalençon are preparing an exhibition dedicated to Napoleon in Monaco

French businessman and media personality Pierre-Jean Chalençon and Princess Stephanie's son, Louis Ducruet, are joining forces to mount an exhibition on the Emperor.

Nothing, in itself, could have foreshadowed this association of men.

On the one hand, a character who made headlines during the Covid crisis (he had been accused of having organised clandestine dinners in the middle of the pandemic, editor's note), a whimsical and media-savvy businessman who is also one of the biggest collectors in France, if not in the world, of objects linked to Napoleon.

On the other, the son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, a football scout and co-manager, with his father, of the Monadeco company, a renovation and decoration company based in Monaco.
Two men who naturally would not have crossed paths. However, Pierre-Jean Chalençon and Louis Ducret are now working together on an initiative, that of an exhibition in Monaco on a historical man known throughout the world and for whom they have a common admiration, the Emperor.