Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

According to Sotheby's, their forthcoming auction of Pierre-Jean Chalençon's collection "presents an extraordinary synthesis ...

The discovery of Napoleon’s 3-cm penis invites a deeper discussion about male identity and the perception of power throughout ...

Director Ridley Scott revisited epic history in his 2023 movie Napoleon, a bold and lengthy movie that charted the rise and ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was, according to everyone who matters, utterly compelling. The 'Little Corporal' conquered Europe, made himself emperor and wore his hat the wrong way around just to stand ...

French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte was riding high as he brokered peace with England for the first time in a decade, retook several colonies that France had recently lost, and became consul for life. In ...

In recent years, several of Napoleon's possessions have fetched high prices at auctions. In July of the previous year, two ...

The announcement that JOHN MITCHEL would deliver a lecture on the Emperor NAPOLEON, at Cooper Institute, last evening, drew together a very large number of the lecturer's friends and admirers.

His forces defeated Austria, and in 1804 Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France. The French Empire’s renewed hopes to break British naval power were dashed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor fetched almost 4.7 ...

Some think that Napoleon is just a brandy!” But the consul, who is finishing a 12-volume series on the last years of the emperor’s life, adds: “Napoleon was many things—general ...