Auctioneers sold 50 letters to Josephine on record prices

[Евгений]

Shareholders in Fontainebleau, south of Paris could help out a record amount from sales letters to his mistress, and then the first wife of Emperor Napoleon, Josephine, news agency AFP. Total 400 documents have been sold during the Great French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, which included 50 letters of Josephine, totaling 700 thousand euros.
The record price (almost 87 thousand euros) was paid for the letter in 1814, where Josephine tells her son that her ex-husband abdicated the French throne. "It's over, he abdicates. I'm confused and do not find a place for itself," - she wrote it.

Auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osena (Jean-Pierre Osenat) described the successful sale of "a real triumph," which indicates that the world community continues to show high interest in the personality of Josephine. Among the purchasers were citizens of the United States, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and other countries.

The absolute record for the value of a letter from the famous correspondence was put to a Christie's auction in June 2007 on the sale of a rich collection of letters historical figures of the Swiss lawyer Albin Schram. Then the letter of Napoleon to Josephine, in which he apologized for what had happened between them quarrel, went with a hammer for a record 276 thousand pounds.

Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais (born Marie-Joseph-Rose de Tasha de la Pazhri (Marie-Josephe-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie)) in 1796. In 1804 she was proclaimed Empress of France. Later, Napoleon divorced her because she could not bear him an heir, and married the Austrian archduchess Marie-Louise. Josephine went to belonged to her chateau Malmaison outside Paris, where he died of tuberculosis less than two months after the abdication of Napoleon from the throne in 1814.
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