Confederatka, red or dark blue

A highly prized headdress during the Empire period by some officers, it comes from a traditional Polish headdress.
We replicated a headdress stored at the Bern Museum : it is De Watteville's, an officer from a Swiss regiment in the service of the King of Prussia, made a prisoner in Iena, he defected to the Emperor's service. He would then remain a faithful servant, most notably as an aide-de-camp for Maréchal Lannes. He would die during the Russian campaign.