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Napoleon essay fetches record price at French auction
PARIS — A 200-year-old letter in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Kremlin fetched 187,500 euros at a French auction on Sunday, while an essay by him on the failed Russian campaign set another record. The coded missive, written in numbers and signed “Nap”, said: “I will blow…
Napoleon’s written promise to ‘blow up the Kremlin’ up for auction in France
A coded letter in which Napoleon Bonaparte vows to blow up the Kremlin goes under the hammer near Paris in December, 200 years after the French invasion of Russia. “I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three am,” reads the missive written in numbers and signed “Nap”,…
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