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Marie Antoinette's Slippers

5.  An auction in France yielded 50,000 Euros for a pair of slippers which once belonged to Marie Antoinette. The green slippers were expected to bring in 10,000 Euros, but a telephone bidder paid 5 times as much during an auction of 350 items owned by French royal families.[TelegraphUK] [Photo via]
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