Two pistols owned by the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, with which he once intended to kill himself, have been sold at auction for €1.69m (£1.4m).
The weapons, which were created by the Paris gunmaker Louis-Marin Gosset, had been expected to fetch between €1.2m and €1.5m.
They were sold at the Osenat auction house on Sunday - next to the Fontainebleau palace where Napoleon tried to take his own life following his abdication in 1814.
The pistols' sale comes after France's culture ministry recently classified them as national treasures and banned their export.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng49dg35vo
The weapons, which were created by the Paris gunmaker Louis-Marin Gosset, had been expected to fetch between €1.2m and €1.5m.
They were sold at the Osenat auction house on Sunday - next to the Fontainebleau palace where Napoleon tried to take his own life following his abdication in 1814.
The pistols' sale comes after France's culture ministry recently classified them as national treasures and banned their export.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng49dg35vo
