By 1790 the Pug's popularity has spread to France where Josephine, wife
of Napoleon, depended on her Pug "Fortune" to carry secret messaged under
collar to her husband while she was impresoned at Les Carmes.
In 1860 British soldiers sacked the
Imperial Palace in Peking and dogs
of the Pug and Pekingese type were brought back to England. This was the first
time since the early 16th
century that dogs in any great number had been brought
out of China. Black
Pugs were imported from China and exhibited for the first
time in England
in 1886. One year earlier, in 1885, the Pug had been accepted
registration with the American Kennel Club.