Napoleon's 'car' collection on display at Versailles

New York

IF NAPOLEON had lived to see the year 2016, he might be zipping across the French countryside in a Bugatti. Yet that US$2.6 million beauty wouldn't warrant a test drive compared to the rides he sported back in the 18th and 19th centuries: fully gilded carriages with crimson velvet interiors, retractable stairs, monogrammed wood carvings, and eight-stallion horsepower. A d…