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☆ Napoleon’s ornate flintlock pistols sell for $1.83 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Two flintlock Gossard pistols once owned by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have sold at auction for €1.69 million ($1.83 million). They were originally valued at an estimated €1.2 million-€1.5 million ($1.3 million- $1.63 million). According to the auctioneer, they were given to Napoleon’s friend and squire Armand de Caulaincourt just after the emperor attempted suicide in April 1814. The emperor “had frequently examined his pistols, removing bullets from his nécessaire” during this time, Osenat reports Caulaincourt as saying. Last November, Osenat sold one of Napoleon’s famous black hats for a record €1.932 million ($2.1 million).

Persons: French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, Armand de Caulaincourt, Michel Bury, Osenat, Napoleon, Caulaincourt, “ Napoleon, “, Jean, Pierre Osenat, ” Organizations: CNN, Sunday Locations: French, Fontainebleau, Paris, Russia, Elba, Burr, France

☆ Napoleon’s hat sells for record $2.1 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —One of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous black hats sold for more than $2 million at an auction in France on Sunday. The €1.932 million ($2.1 million) sale set a record for Napoleon’s trademark two-cornered military dress hats. The hat was part of a collection belonging to French industrialist Jean Louis Noisiez that went on sale on Sunday. According to its online listing, the hat - which sold for more than double its original estimate - was made by a furrier at the emperor’s palace. In 2018, another version of the hat sold for more than $400,000 at an auction in Lyon, France.

Persons: Napoleon Bonaparte’s, Jean Louis Noisiez, Napoleon, Jean, Pierre Osenat, ”, Helena, Ridley, Joaquin Phoenix Organizations: CNN, Sunday, Reuters Locations: France, Fontainebleau, French, Elba, “, Lyon, British, Waterloo, St

☆ Napoleon hat fetches record $2.1 million at Paris auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PARIS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A bicorne hat believed to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte sold for a record 1,932,000 euros ($2.11 million) at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Sunday. The price beat the 1,884,000 euros paid for another Napoleon hat at Drouot in 2014, a official at the auction house said. "One million four hundred fifty thousand (euros) to my left, 1.5 million, we have 1.5 million in the room, 1.5 million for Napoleon's hat. We're leaving it at 1.5 million for this major Napoleon symbol, I'm selling for 1.5 million (before fees), no regrets, sold," auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat said as he brought down the hammer to applause. Ahead of the auction, Osenat told Reuters the black beaver felt hat in the traditional bicorne shape was a trademark for Napoleon, who had owned about 120 such hats throughout his life.

Persons: Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon, Jean, Pierre Osenat, Osenat, Ardee Napolitano, Geert De Clercq, Andrew Heavens Organizations: Reuters, Bonhams, Thomson Locations: Paris, London

PARIS (AP) — A faded and cracked felt hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte fetched $1.6 million at an auction Sunday of the French emperor’s belongingsYes, $1.6 million. It was the centerpiece of Sunday's auction in Fontainebleau of memorabilia collected by a French industrialist who died last year. But the bidding quickly jumped higher and higher until Jean Pierre Osenat, president of the Osenat auction house, designated the winner. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesWhile other officers customarily wore their hats with the wings facing front to back, Napoléon wore his with the ends pointing toward his shoulders. The entrepreneur spent more than a half-century assembling his collection of Napoleonic memorabilia, firearms, swords and coins before his death in 2022.

Persons: Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoléon, Europe —, Jean Pierre Osenat, ‘, ”, —, Pierre Baillon, Jean, Louis Noisiez Organizations: PARIS Locations: France, Europe, Fontainebleau, French, bataille

☆ Fact Check-Treasures from Kyiv monastery not going ‘under the hammer’ in France on Oct. 1
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

False information about a non-existent auction of artefacts belonging to a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery is being circulated online by people who believe it to be real. According to a public billboard seen in an image on social media, French auction house Osenat is planning an Oct. 1 event to sell off “treasures” from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a 980-year-old monastery in the Ukrainian capital. The billboard uses the auction house’s logo, Orthodox imagery, and includes the date, time, and description of the alleged event. Reuters also found that the billboard image is fabricated. There is no record of such an event on the Osenat website and the auction house told Reuters it is false.

Persons: ”, Read Organizations: Russian Art, Reuters Locations: Ukrainian, Kyiv, Pechersk, Kiev, Paris, Versailles

☆ Un pantof care i-a aparţinut reginei Maria Antoaneta, vândut la licitaţie cu peste 43.000 de euro
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-16 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un pantof alb din mătase care i-a aparţinut reginei Maria Antoaneta a fost adjudecat duminică pentru suma de 43.750 de euro, a anunţat casa de licitaţii Osenat, potrivit AFP, citat de agerpres.ro. Talpa este din piele şi are un ''toc îmbrăcat în piele vopsită într-o nuanţă de gri'', cu o înălţime de 4,7 centimetri, a precizat Osenat. Pantoful i-a fost dăruit lui Marie-Emilie Leschevin de Prevoisin, prietenă apropiată a doamnei Campan, camerista reginei. Obiectul a fost apoi păstrat de la sfârşitul secolului al XVIII-lea de descendenţii acestei femei, decedată în 1816, până la momentul scoaterii sale la licitaţie. Figura reginei Maria Antoaneta, de origine austriacă, decapitată în timpul Revoluţiei Franceze din 1793, asemenea soţului său Ludovic al XVI-lea, continuă să fascineze lumea întreagă.

Persons: Maria Antoaneta, Marie, Campan, reginei, Ludovic al XVI, Francois, Jean Garneray, Moliere honoré, Louis, Moliere, Ludovic al XIV -, Regele Locations: austriacă

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