Paris museum wins Bronte bidding war

A French museum has won a bidding war for an unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript, dashing hopes that it could return to the author's former home. The Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris bought the second issue of Young Men's Magazine at auction for £690,850. It outbid the Bronte Parsonage Museum, based in the family's former house in Haworth, West Yorkshire. The work, written when Bronte was 14, is regarded as important for the light it sheds on her literary development