French museum guard breaks Napoleon's chair
French museum guard breaks Napoleon's chair
A historic chair that once belonged to the former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte may have been able to hold the "little corporal", but it was not designed, it seems, to hold the weight of the museum's security guard.
Talk about the damage that having a Napoleon complex can do. A guard at the Musée Fesch d’Ajaccio, a fine arts museum in Corsica’s largest town, couldn’t help indulging his inner emperor last week. He must have lived to regret it.
Normally museum exhibits come with a "Don't Touch" sign but the guard evidently ignored protocol and lowered himself down into the former emperor's “chaise de campagne”, or military campaign chair.
But when he did the historic leather seat ripped in two places, France TV reported this week.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140210/museum-security-guard-napoleons-chair
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Poor guy. 
This was early 80's, so Reagan. 
We were waiting in line for a tour, I was very bored so I leaned up against the wall and a piece of wainscot fell off onto the ground. Oops! 