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Today I learned (todayilearned@noc.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Dec-2025 03:09:11 JST Today I learned

TIL when Napoleon had his marriage to Empress Joséphine annulled, he commissioned a set of 72 porcelain plates adorned with sketches of his 1798 campaign into Egypt as a "divorce gift". Joséphine rejected the gift, calling the design "too severe".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A8vres_Egyptian_Service
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  TIL when Napoleon had his marriage to Empress Joséphine annulled, he commissioned a set of 72 porcelain plates adorned with sketches of his 1798 campaign into Egypt as a "divorce gift". Joséphine rejected the gift, calling the design "too severe".
  
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