Sotheby's did not disclose the identity of the seller of the brooch, and said that the buyer was a "private collector." ...
The brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, features an oval diamond weighing over 13 carats surrounded by smaller cut diamonds.
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Napoleon Bonaparte’s lost brooch fetches $4.4 million at Sotheby’s auction
The annual Royal & Noble Jewels auction, held on Wednesday in Geneva, concluded with record sales. The jewel that the French military leader lost at the Battle of Waterloo alone increased its starting ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from European War 4: Napoleon The game is set during the French Revoloutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. In Campaign Mode, the player must capture certain ...
FONTAINEBLEAU, France – A gold-encrusted sword Napoleon wore into battle in Italy was sold on Sunday for more than $6.4 million at an auction south of Paris, the auction house said. The last of ...
Filmmaker Ridley Scott’s new war-time epic “Napoleon” won’t hit cinemas until November, but it turns out he’s already making plans for a director’s cut of the film, notes Dark Horizons. And the ...
Remembering Napoleon is a biographical account based on years of intimate friendship and professional association of the author with Napoleon. Bourrienne, the author of this memoir met Bonaparte at ...
A bicorne hat that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte just sold for €1.2 million ($1.4 million) at Sotheby’s. Believed to have been worn by the first French emperor on July 7, 1807, during a meeting ...
French authorities announced four more people have been arrested in the probe into last month's spectacular daylight heist ...
A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early 19th century sold for more than 3.5 million Swiss francs — about $4.4 million — at a Geneva ...
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