Think about it: the people who shaped our world, the ones who commanded armies and ruled empires, they weren't superhuman.

However, that isn’t what captured public attention in Harrisonburg, Virginia, during a trial that ended shortly before ...

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 ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...

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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 ...

He also posted them on X moments later (archived): Many people recognized the passage as a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, the first emperor of France. It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de ...

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 ...