Paris, November 19, 2023, The Europe Today: A bicorne black beaver felt hat that had belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte sold for a record €1,932,000 ($2.11 million) in Paris.
The hat, sold at the Drouot auction house was initially expected to fetch € 600,000 to 800,000. The hat, black, with the colors of the French flag — blue, white and red — on its insignia was previously owned by French businessman Jean-Louis Noisiez who passed away last year.
The auction house, based in Fontainebleau, south of Paris did not reveal the buyer of the hat.
The record was last broken when another of Napoleon’s hats was sold for €1,884,000 to a South Korean businessman in 2014, an auction house official said.
