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Louis Constant Wairy

Valet to Napoleon (1778-1845)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2041792 ↗
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Louis Constant Wairy (1778–1845) was valet to Napoleon, Emperor of the French.

He wrote "Mémoires de Constant, premier valet de chambre de l'empereur, sur la vie privée de Napoléon, sa famille et sa cour." ("Memoires of Constant, valet of the emperor; about his private life, his family and his court.") His memoirs were also translated into English.

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“Louis Constant Wairy” enters the record as valet to Napoleon (1778-1845). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louis, Constant and Wairy can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2041792. VIAF identifies the subject as 32035387. The Library of Congress control number is n92102392. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1778 and 1845.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Constant Wairy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.