Two pistols owned by Napoleon Bonaparte which the French emperor tried to kill himself with have been sold for €1.69 million ($2.71 million).
According to auction house Osenat, Napoleon tried to commit suicide using the guns on April 12, 1814, after military defeat had forced him into abdication.
But his squire had removed the gunpowder from the weapons, and the emperor then survived an ensuing attempt to end his life using poison.
He was then forced into exile on the island of Elba, before his return to France and final defeat at Waterloo the following year.
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