The house was the last of the Kroger South Yarra estate, that was for years the marital home he shared with Ann Peacock.
The contents have now been moved to Paris where they will be sold on October 2.
The collection has been placed in the hands of one of the world's leading appraisers and auctioneers of Napoleonic memorabilia - a great strategy that puts it in good company and will attract all the right buyers.
It also avoids the brouhaha and fuss that a local house contents auction of this kind might attract, and the inevitable political sniggers that an association with Napoleon - and Josephine - that could go with it.
While the estimates and the cataloguing suggest it is a modest affair for serious Napoleonic memorabilia, the collection obviously took a lot of putting together and was very neatly composed to evoke the age of the big bad man.
The same auction house, Osenat at Fontainebleau, holds the world record price for a piece of Napoleonic memorabilia.
In 2007 it sold what is believed to have been the last sword that had belonged to Napoleon in private hands.
It made €4.8 million, the then equivalent of over $A6 million.
None of the 165 lots in the coming Kroger Osenat offering look like making over €100,000.
A large early oil on canvas copy of Paul Delaroches 1845 painting of Napoleon at Fontainbleu in 1814, estimated at €25,000 to €35,000. is probably the signature piece of the sale and is expected to fetch one of the highest prices.
A suite of Empire furniture by Jacob Desmaalter is estimated at €40,000 to €60,000 and a single canape attributed to the same maker, at €15,000 to €20,000.
The 165 lots also include lots of shakos, uniforms on mannequins
Buyers can also compete for fragments of a dress believed to have belonged to Empress Josephine at €3000 to €5000 - a song compared what was unsuccessfully sought recently at Webb's in New Zealand for a waistcoat thought to have belonged to Captain Cook.
There is also an oil on canvas portrait of an angel, which Napoleon certainly was not.
It is by Robert Lefebre (1755-1830) and titled L'amour aiguisant ses flèches.
It has a great exhibition history and may steal the Emperor's show, something the winner at Waterloo, Admiral Nelson, has never quite managed to do in the saleroom or with collectors.
