Napoleon Tiara

As a gift to the pope, Napoleon once presented him with a tiara (a crown) encrusted with 3,345 individual valuable gems. The tiara weighed 18 pounds and was too small to fit on a human head; therefore, it was meant as an insult. The original gems of the tiara were removed by Pope Benedict XV and replaced with colored glass replicas. Funds from the sale of the gems were used to aid the victims of the First World War.