23 August 2016
Love beetle
This is one of the most beautiful rings of love … Napoleon had the beetle sculpted out of the projectile that killed his horse in the battle of Dresden, in August 1813. He then had it mounted on a pink-gold ring and offered it to his mistress, Marie Walewska.
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