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Hat belonging to Napoleon sold for £1.7m

Sky News Sunday, 19 November 2023
A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte has sold at auction in France for an estimate-busting €1.9m (£1.69m).
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A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he was French emperor sold for a record of nearly two million euros, according to the French auction house, Osenat, in Fontainebleau. It went for 1.932 million euros - breaking the previous record for a Napoleonic hat, held by the same auction house, of...

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