Napoleon's Will Sells for &#36;149K in Paris
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An early draft of Napoleon Bonaparte's will &#151; in which the French emperor writes of his English enemies "I forgive them," but then apparently thinks better of it and scratches out the phrase &#151; sold at a Paris auction Tuesday for &#36;149,505.
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A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was looted by Nazis during World War II reportedly sells for a record $135m.
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PARIS The French government forged ahead on Wednesday with a plan to sell a one-third stake in the nuclear power group Areva on the Paris stock exchange early next year, a transaction that could raise more than â¬3.
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Tiscali SpA, Europe's second-largest Internet service provider, said Monday that it has sold its Austrian unit for nearly &#36;15 million.
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Two hundred years after he crowned himself emperor of France, a handwritten draft of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs -- littered with spelling mistakes -- fetched a record price at auction in Paris on Tuesday.
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LONDON  - A torn piece of the flag that flew on Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, sold at auction for &#36;86,600 US on Tuesday.
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A painting by John Singer Sargent sells for $23.5m (Â£12.1m), setting a new auction record for the artist.
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The French government plans to sell as much as 5.8 billion euros ($7.1 billion) of shares in France Telecom SA to reduce debt that breaches European Union limits.
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A painting by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael that had not been seen publicly for more than 40 years was sold at auction Thursday for $37.2 million.
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The vast, high-end Paris antiques gallery has planned a three-city sale this fall to auction 1,000 of its antiques with Christieâs.
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A portrait by 16th century artist Raphael that went for $325 four decades ago sold at auction on Thursday for a record 18.5 million pounds ($37.3 million).
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Lucian Freud's portrait of a naked, pregnant Kate Moss is expected to fetch up to &#36;6.4 million when it is auctioned next year, Christie's auction house said.
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To heiress Paris Hilton, Tinkerbell was worth &#36;5,000. To   value-minded eBay users, a piece of the once-wayward Chihuahua's going   for a not-too-shabby three figures.
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Electricite de France said it raised 2.57 billion euros (&#36;3.17 billion) from the sale of its 2.3 percent stake in French oil company Total SA on Wednesday.
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France will sell up to 12.1 percent of France Telecom in Europe&#39;s largest share placement in four years, bringing as much as 5.75 billion euros ($6.
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A torn piece of the flag that flew on Lord Nelson's last ship, the Victory, sold at auction for &#36;86,600 on Tuesday.
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A painting of water lilies by Claude Monet sold at a Sotheby's auction Tuesday for $36.8 million. It was the second major work by the impressionist artist to go under the hammer this week.