Valentine’s Day 2026: Long before instant messages and video calls collapsed distance, love travelled by ink and paper, with ...

PARIS (AP) — After the Hollywood epic “Napoleon” exposed the legendary emperor to a new generation two years ago, over 100 relics — which shaped empires, broke hearts and spawned centuries of ...

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 (and ...

Any casual student of history knows how the story of Napoleon Bonaparte ends: Waterloo, 1815. After more than two decades of dominating European battlefields and European history, Napoleon was finally ...

A bounty of more than 100 Napoleon objects stunned at Sotheby’s Paris auction on Wednesday, when it raked in €8.3 million ($9.7 million), beating its presale estimate of €6 million ($7 million).

It’s a sight, to be sure, though perhaps not as wild as watching Joaquin Phoenix’s military genius scrambling like a guilty puppy through a palace while still trying to keep up appearances for a ...

At brief, introspective moments in Ridley Scott's pyrotechnics-heavy biopic Napoleon, a simple melody emerges from the delicate sound of an old piano. It's more than 200 years old and once belonged to ...