Napoleon Bonaparte`s hat sold for a record of nearly 1.932 million euros ($2.1 million), at a French auction. It broke the previous record for a Napoleonic hat of 1.884 million euros in 2014.

Thehat,known as a bicorne,isin Napoleon`s trademark colours black, with the French flag`s colours blue white-red as insignia and attracted collectors `from the world over` auctioneers Osenat said, declining to give the identity or nationality of the eventual buyer. Napoleon is believed to have owned around 120 such hats, most of which are now lost. Napoleon wore this particular hat towards the middle of his time as emperor which lasted from1808 to 1815, according to the auction house.