Napoleon engagement ring on auction

The engagement ring, a simple gold band decorated with a sapphire and diamond, offered by Napoleon Bonaparte to the future Empress Josephine de Beauharnais is displayed at the auction house Osenat in Paris March 14, 2013. The ring will go on auction in Fontainebleau near Paris on March 24 among a series of historical treasures. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen (FRANCE - Tags: SOCIETY)

Napoleon Bonaparte and his fiance Josephine's historic diamond and sapphire engagement ring was sold for close to $1 million at the Osenat auction house in France on March 24.