Napoleon Bonaparte's pistols are sold for 1.69 million euros

Bonaparte pistols/ Osenat auction house

Two pistols owned by the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, with which he once intended to kill himself, have been sold at auction for 1.69 million euros.

The guns, which were created by Parisian gunsmith Louis-Marin Gosset, were expected to fetch between 1.2 and 1.5 million euros.

They were sold at the Osenat auction house on Sunday, near the Fontainebleau palace where Napoleon tried to kill himself. 

The sale of the pistols comes after the French Ministry of Culture recently classified them as national treasures and banned their export, the BBC reports. 

The arms are decorated with gold and silver and feature an engraved image of Napoleon himself in profile. He later gave the pistols to Caulaincourt, who in turn passed them on to his descendants.

Auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat said the "image of Napoleon at his lowest point" was being sold alongside the artifacts.

The historic leader returned to power in 1815 after his exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba, but went on to be defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. /CNA 

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