The first page from the manuscript of a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte sold on Sunday at an auction in Paris for $35,400 Cdn.
Auction house Osenat said the page of the final draft of Napoleon's short novel, Clisson and Eugenie, went to a buyer whose identity has not been disclosed.
The story is believed to be loosely based on Napoleon's brief romance with Desiree Clary, the sister of his brother's wife.
The story follows a young officer who befriends two sisters and falls in love with the more spiritual of the two.
The page has been part of a French family's private collection.
The novel is only 22 pages in its original handwritten form, and was created by Napoleon at a time when the general was more preoccupied by literary interests, rather than political pursuits.
Peter Hicks of the Fondation Napoleon said the 26-year-old general was a gifted stylist, who was well read and influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher from the period of Enlightenment.
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