Destroyed in 1815, the Hougoumont estate is now emerging from a 10-year restoration project — but how can the gardens combine ...

Trump’s Napoleon quote ups the anti-democratic ante. Trump has barked up this tree before, but even within that context, his use of this quote hits different.

In the film, just before Napoleon launches his attack on British forces at Toulon in the South of France in 1793, he turns his hat sideways. Though bicorns were traditionally worn facing forward ...

Napoleon later married Marie Louise, the Duchess of Parma. Sotheby's Josephine’s dressing table. A mahogany, gilt-bronze dressing table used by Josephine is listed between $228,000 to $456,000.

Napoleon is, indeed, far more comedic and tongue-in-cheek than its trailers have sold. It’s a purposefully inelegant film, one that doesn’t so much dance through the years of Napoleon ...

Street vendors in Paris sold pictures with palm trees, with pyramids, or with ... By the time Napoleon returned to France from Egypt in August 1799, he was famous. His ...

Today’s collectors buy a Napoleon artifact the way they’d buy a guitar from Jimi Hendrix. They want a cabinet of curiosities.” He’s filled the show with fog, hypnotic music and immersive rooms. One is ...

Plus, you want it to look lovely, because it is Napoleon,” said Crossman, who created more than 4,000 uniforms and helped create an elaborate coronation scene.

Whether Napoleon ever really spoke these words—quoted in Albert Camus’ essay “The Almond-Trees”—is unknown. But swords were undoubtedly a potent symbol for the French ruler.

Features The Real History of Napoleon’s Greatest Victory Didn’t Happen Like in the Movie. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon features some amazing battle sequences, but it might fall into French ...

Our Take: Napoleon: The Director’s Cut allows us to spend even more time with this miserable putz, rendered obscure and not particularly interesting by Phoenix. He only flashes in a few scenes ...