Looking for love in The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon by Jennifer Ngaire ...

referring to the quote attributed to the French military leader who created the Napoleonic Code of civil law in 1804 before declaring himself emperor. Napoleon often justified his authoritarian ...

Napoleon was crowned in December 1804 and eleven years later, in June 1815, lost at Waterloo. In these eleven years, he ...

The trouble with leaders growing long in the tooth, from Napoleon to Putin, is that in the end, every hero becomes a bore ...

Napoleon saw that these laws changed France forever. His personal copy of them in print has just been sold. Find out more ...

Napoleon’s signed edition of the civil code, a leather-bound collection of laws introduced under his reign, was sold at ...