Napoleon’s bicorn hat bought at auction for over €1.8M.

Un chapeau de Napoléon acheté 1,8 million d’euros aux enchères

par Cécile Mimaut dimanche 16 novembre 2014 17:01

Le chapeau de Napoléon adjugé à 1,88 million d’euros avait été mis aux enchères ce week-end à Fontainebleau lors de la vente de la prestigieuse collection du Palais princier de Monaco © Maxppp. The hat achieved €1.88M after it was put up for auction in Fontainbleau among the prestigious collection of the Monaco Palace.

Un chapeau de Napoléon a été acheté 1.884.000 euros par un collectionneur, homme d’affaires sud-coréen, dimanche lors d’une vente aux enchères de souvenirs napoléoniens à Fontainebleau près de Paris. Ce bicorne, l’un des dix-neuf authentifiés de l’Empereur existant encore dans le monde, faisait partie de la collection du Palais princier de Monaco.

A south Korean businessman bought the hat on Sunday during an auction of Napoleon memorabilia near Paris.  The bi-corn hat is one of 19 authentic Emperor hats existing in the world, and formed part of a collection of the Monaco principality.  

Pièce maîtresse de ces enchères à Fontainebleau, un bicorne de Napoléon s’est littéralement arraché dimanche après-midi. Estimé entre 300.000 et 400.000 euros, il a finalement été vendu au prix astronomique de 1 million 884 milles euros.

The master-piece of the auction at Fontainbleu, Napoleon’s bi-corn hat was literally snatched this afternoon. Estimated at between €300K and €400K, it was finally sold for the astronomical price of €1,884,000.

Issu des collections princières de Monaco, dont le prince Albert a décidé de disperser un millier de pièces, le chapeau “de forme traditionnelle, en feutre dit en castor noir”, aurait été porté par Napoléon, alors Bonaparte, à la bataille de Marengo en 1800.Son heureux acquéreur, un homme d’affaires de Corée du Sud, a expliqué avoir acheté le couvre-chef impérial pour sa société. Pour lui, Napoléon est en effet le symbole d’un homme pionnier qui lui rappelle son pays la Corée du Sud.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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