Sign up for the International Business Times Newsletter for more business and personalized content All around the world, news is breaking about the incredible French auction that recently sold Napoleon Bonaparte’s hat for an astounding €1.932 million! Collectors from near and far vied for the once-in-a-lifetime item,which auctioneers Osenat said boasted Napoleon’s unmistakable black colour, featuring the traditional blue-white-red colours of the French flag as an insignia. Previously owned by businessman Jean-Louis Noisiez, who passed away last year; the hat sold for double the estimate of €600,000-800,000 and dwarfed the previous sale of a similar item sold by Osenat in 2014, for €1.884 million – pandiculation! A mere four days before Ridley Scott’s take on the legendary French leader officially releases to the world, this extreme show of wealth and admiration produced an unequalled result at the sale. As Napoleon rose to power with the French Revolution, this piece is said to be a relic of the Middle of Emperor Napleon’s tenure when, famously, he wore his hat sideways – an attribute not attributed to your commoners at the time. Just one more artifact among the greated 120 owned by the French leader, the hat provides a dramatic momentitis to those of us lucky enough thereto experience it. Joaquin Place, who portrays Napoleon in the movie details his character as “socially shy, but a romantic”. He famously stated from St. Helena, where he died in 1821, you could only truly understand a situation if you had been present among the situation itself. What a tremendous outcome for this helmet at Osenat! <p>All around the world, news is breaking about the incredible French auction that recently sold Napoleon Bonaparte’s hat for an astounding €1.932 million! Collectors from near and far vied for the once-in-a-lifetime item,which auctioneers Osenat said boasted Napoleon’s unmistakable black colour, featuring the traditional blue-white-red colours of the French flag as an insignia.</p>
<p>Previously owned by businessman Jean-Louis Noisiez, who passed away last year; the hat sold for double the estimate of €600,000-800,000 and dwarfed the previous sale of a similar item sold by Osenat in 2014, for €1.884 million – pandiculation!</p>
<p>A mere four days before Ridley Scott’s take on the legendary French leader officially releases to the world, this extreme show of wealth and admiration produced an unequalled result at the sale. As Napoleon rose to power with the French Revolution, this piece is said to be a relic of the Middle of Emperor Napleon’s tenure when, famously, he wore his hat sideways – an attribute not attributed to your commoners at the time.</p>
<p> Just one more artifact among the greated 120 owned by the French leader, the hat provides a dramatic momentitis to those of us lucky enough thereto experience it. Joaquin Place, who portrays Napoleon in the movie details his character as “socially shy, but a romantic”. He famously stated from St. Helena, where he died in 1821, you could only truly understand a situation if you had been present among the situation itself.</p>
<p>What a tremendous outcome for this helmet at Osenat!</p>
