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Hat belonging to Napoleon fetches record amount at auction in France | World News<\/p>\n
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A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte has sold at auction in France for an estimate-busting \u20ac1.9m (\u00a31.69m).<\/p>\n
The garment was expected to go for up to \u20ac600,000 (\u00a3525,000) when it went under the hammer on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Auction house Osenat said it was a “world record” amount for one of Napoleon’s hats.<\/p>\n
It was part of industrialist Jean-Louis Noisiez’s collection of Napoleonic memorabilia, which also included a silver plate looted from his carriage after he was defeated at Waterloo, a wooden vanity case and a silver toothbrush.<\/p>\n
However, it was the felt black hat that was the centrepiece of the collection.<\/p>\n
While most officers wore their bicorne hats with the points facing forwards and backwards, Napoleon wore his with the tips in line with his shoulders.<\/p>\n
The style – known as en bataille – made it easier for him to spot the military general in combat.<\/p>\n
According to the auctioneers, the hat in question was recovered by Colonel Pierre Baillon, a quartermaster under Napoleon and one of his military comrades.<\/p>\n
Read more: It was then passed through several hands before Mr Noisiez, who died in 2022 acquired it for his collection.<\/p>\n “For people who are into Napoleonic souvenirs, it’s the holy grail to have a hat,” said Jean-Pierre Osenat, head of the Osenat auction house.<\/p>\n
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