Napoleon Bonaparte’s journey from his birth in Corsica in 1768 to his coronation as Emperor of France in 1804 is a tale of ambition, military genius, and political maneuvering. This video ...

On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized ...

PARIS - For France, those were the days. The French aren't pining for the return of their 19th-century empire, but the 200th anniversary today of Napoleon Bonaparte's crowning as emperor is a ...

For Napoleon’s coronation, Yates took cues from Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1807 painting about the event. “We copied it as verbatim as we could,” she says.

We barrel through Napoleon’s rise from artillery commander to his coronation as emperor, which he pursues in part to shake off his reputation as a “Corsican thug.” 4 ...

As one of the largest oil paintings hanging in the Louvre, the work, which the French have nicknamed Le Sacre (officially, it is titled The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation ...

He was also seen coming face to face with his wife for the first time, Joséphine Bonaparte, who was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I from 18 May 1804 until their ...

Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait in his coronation robes. Historians disagree about whether the ambitious French ruler was really as short as he is often depicted. Painting By Robert ...

The most serious book about the Napoleon obsession was born in a German concentration camp. Early in 1940, the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl wrote an essay on how Bonaparte had been seen by ...

PARIS — A faded and cracked felt hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte fetched $1.6 million Sunday at an auction of the French emperor’s belongings Yes, $1.6 million. The signature broad, black hat ...