Do you know what fills me most with wonder?” Napoleon once reportedly asked the Marquis de Fontanes. “The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the ...

In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at Austerlitz three years before. Archduke Charles led an invasion of ...

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor is to be auctioned in ...

He uses images to make sure that his victories in Italy are widely publicized in France. Although the Egyptian campaign was a military disaster, Napoleon was able to exploit the French people's ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past relationship with ...

"This arrest is one of the events that will define Napoleon's reign, at a political and religious level," Jean-Christophe Chataignier, an expert in the Napoleonic era at Osenat, told Agence France ...

Paris (AFP) – A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past ...

Napoleon wanted these "savants," as scientists were called at the time, to focus on projects that could benefit France, such as purifying water from the Nile River, hops-free beer brewing ...

By any measure, it was one of the most colossal land transactions in history, involving an area larger than today’s France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the British ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was specially ordered for the personal use by the French emperor will be auctioned in Paris next month, an auction house said. Napoleon ordered the ...