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

Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

In 1803, war erupted in Europe once again. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near ...

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

As wife of the first consul and then empress ... After the third and final Napoleon, France went back to being a Republic with a proper president, and the short but memorable Bonaparte dynasty ...

Napoleon abdicated rather than plunge France into a civil war ... His greatest hope was for a peaceful period like his days as first consul, in which he could re-establish the legitimacy of ...

passed in 1804 and still constituting the foundation of the legal system of the French Republic.As First Consul, Napoleon supervised the revision of France’s feudal and monarchist law codes and ...