Riding boots owned by Napoleon – €91,000 (£77,780) at Binoche et Giquello.
Binoche-Giquello/Drouot
MADAM – The report on the sale of a pair of riding boots formally owned by the Emperor Napoleon during his captivity on St Helena (ATG No 2421) brings to my mind a number of points.
First, that they would not have seen much use for the last third of the emperor’s detention. This was because Napoleon refused to ride out under the conditions imposed on his exercise by the island’s governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.