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Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via GettyA battered hat once worn by Napoléon fetched more than double its estimate at auction—$2.1 million. The buyer is anonymous; the seller is the estate of the late French industrialist Jean-Louis Noisiez. The bicorne hat is made of black felt and is hardly in mint condition; the Associated Press described it as faded and cracked. But interest in Napoléon is running high with the impending release of the Ridley Scott biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix.

A faded and cracked felt bicorne hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte sold for £1.7 million ($2.1 million) at an auction of the French emperor's belongings. The signature broad, black hat - one of a handful still in existence that Napoleon wore when he ruled 19th-century France and waged war in Europe - was initially valued at €600,000 to €800,000 (£525,000 - £700,000) It was the centrepiece of Sunday's auction in Fontainebleau, Paris, of memorabilia collected by a French industrialist who died last year. The hat on sale was first recovered by Col. Pierre Baillon, a quartermaster un...