Like its former wearer, a "bicorne" hat that once sat on the French emperor's head showed no lack of ambition when it commanded €1.9mil (RM7.97mil) at an auction.
Jean-Pierre Osenat of the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France, proudly confirms the sale of the black bicorne hat to a South Korean buyer in a sale of Napoleon Bonaparte-era items from the collections of the Prince of Monaco.
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