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That bicorne, worn at a rakish, sideways angle, as synonymous with him as his battlefield victories.
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Lysanne Currie, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
For example, one of Napoleon’s bicorne hats sold for $2.1 million in November—days before the release of the film Napoleon, director Ridley Scott’s historical drama about the emperor’s rise and fall.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
One of the hanging illustrations shows a man wearing a military uniform and a bicorne hat, a headcovering common among European army and naval officers of the day.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
Jump to Answer 5 Vegan Joaquin Phoenix doesn’t wear animal products, which meant Napoleon’s costume team had to re-create the French military leader’s famous bicornes without wool felt.
—Craigh Barboza, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
Not Napoleon’s bicorne hat, an original of which (just in time for Ridley Scott’s movie) sold for $2.1 million at an auction last month in France, but Santa’s hat.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
As Joaquin Phoenix portrays him, Napoleon is idiosyncratic, pervy, brutish — Joker in a bicorne hat.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
Yet the bicorne hat was by far the pièce de résistance, as the French would say.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
And Napoleon's famous bicorne hat sells for $2.1 million.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
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Lysanne Currie, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
For example, one of Napoleon’s bicorne hats sold for $2.1 million in November—days before the release of the film Napoleon, director Ridley Scott’s historical drama about the emperor’s rise and fall.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
One of the hanging illustrations shows a man wearing a military uniform and a bicorne hat, a headcovering common among European army and naval officers of the day.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
Jump to Answer 5 Vegan Joaquin Phoenix doesn’t wear animal products, which meant Napoleon’s costume team had to re-create the French military leader’s famous bicornes without wool felt.
—Craigh Barboza, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
Not Napoleon’s bicorne hat, an original of which (just in time for Ridley Scott’s movie) sold for $2.1 million at an auction last month in France, but Santa’s hat.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
As Joaquin Phoenix portrays him, Napoleon is idiosyncratic, pervy, brutish — Joker in a bicorne hat.
—Armond White, National Review, 24 Nov. 2023
Yet the bicorne hat was by far the pièce de résistance, as the French would say.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
And Napoleon's famous bicorne hat sells for $2.1 million.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
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“Bicorne.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bicorne. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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