#Isabella Stewart Gardner was a massive Napoleon fan and has a whole room dedicated to relics of him
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This is the flag of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard the robbers at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum tried to steal in 1990 but were unsuccessful.
The robbers were successful at stealing the flag’s eagle finial and it remains lost to this day. There is a $100,000 reward for its return.
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)
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