We wrote a while back about the most expensive lighter in the world, but I got a bit bored with it and then showed you shopping penguin, which was much more entertaining.  S.T. Dupont have come out with another lighter in the shape of the Place Vendôme.  This is a limited edition Ligne 2 Prestige rose gold lighter embellished with 192 diamonds, for $47,000.  To any right-minded person, this could be instantly mistaken (or indeed correctly taken) as one of those horrible souvenirs you buy on the Champs-Élysées by a threatening immigrant street seller.  Read more after the jump.

I got this story from luxist, and as the classy site they are, they furnished the story with some facts that I’m now going to quote wholesale.

…limited to 35 pieces, [the lighter] is modeled on the architecture of the majestic Parisian square of that name commissioned by King Louis XIV in the 17th century. In 1810 following his victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon enriched the square by erecting the Vendôme Column. A pen matching the lighter modeled on the column is also available. Napoleon’s famous quotation is engraved on the lighter’s roller and on the body of the pen: “Impossible n’est pas français” – Nothing is impossible for the French.

Nice to have that in there I think.  My life reached a cultural nadir last night when I watched Mean Girls on DVD.  Plus extras.  And Director’s commentaries.  Mainly to watch the Jewish character.  Moses she’s hot.