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Napoleon Bonaparte

Two pistols owned by Napoleon up for auction with estimated value of up to $1.6m

Two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte once intended to use to kill himself are up for auction this weekend, expected to reach up to €1.5 million ($1.6 million), an auction house said Monday. The richly decorated guns inlaid with gold and…
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Napoleon Bonaparte’s sword and some firearms sold at auction for $2.9 million

US auctioneers have announced that the sword Napoleon Bonaparte carried when he led the 1799 coup d'état in France, and five of his firearms sold at auction for nearly $2.9 million. Company president Kevin Hogan told AFP that the item,…
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Socks and cloth stained with Napoleon’s blood at auction to mark 200 years of his death

Private collectors race next week to buy a DNA sample of the late French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, in a blood-stained cloth that was placed on his body during his autopsy, and this piece is offered for sale in an auction held to mark the…
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