Napoleon planned to do something very grim with these pistols that have just sold for £1,400,000
A box with two pistols, which belonged to Emperor Napoleon I, during the preview before their auction, in Paris (Picture: AFP)
Two pistols owned Napoleon Bonaparte, with which he once planned to take his own life, have been sold at auction in France for £1.4 million.
The weapons, which could have altered the course of history, bear witness to the the darkest moment in the French emperor’s life.
Created by the Parisian gunmaker Louis-Marin Gosset, they had been expected to fetch...
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