Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the ...

Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ ...

Napoleon Bonaparte sometimes wondered if he should have done more to support Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen in 1798. During his exile on St Helena, the deposed emperor fantasised about an alternative ...

The 2025 record price for Napoléon Louis Eugène Bonaparte was for Imperial Prince as flag bearer of the Guard Plaster The 2022 record price for Napoléon Louis Eugène Bonaparte was for Staff Officer on ...

To mark the centenary of Adolf Hitler’s birth in April 1989, Desmond Seward has had the interesting idea of comparing his career with that of another ‘world-historic’ figure, Napoleon Bonaparte.

As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor’s exile under a scornful British governor Text by Erica Munkwitz and James L. Swanson; Photographs by ...

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IF THE tremendous accumulation of books about Napoleon seems an argument against reading another, it is an even stronger argument against writing one. Emil Ludwig’s “Napoleon, the Man of Destiny” is a ...

Napoleon Caruana Dingli was born in Mellieħa, son of Antonio Caruana Dingli M.D*. and Giacinta née Zahra. His great grandfather was Giuseppe Caruana Dingli* while his paternal uncles included ...

Husband-and-wife filmmakers Jared and Jerusha Hess have a working relationship so blessedly intertwined, they even share the same Wikipedia page. So the infectious spirit with which the “Napoleon ...