PATRIOTIC FRENCH.
BID £286 FOR ONE OF NAPOLEON’S HATS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received noon to-day. PARIS, June 3. A miniature Franco-American war was fought out in an auction room when one of Napoleon’s hats was offered. Patriotic French bidders wildly outbid souvenir-hunting Americans, and the final French bid, £283, kept the tricolour flying. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 4 June 1926, Page 9
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