Napoleon Bonaparte was not only an extremely victorious general of the French army, but also the emperor of France from 1804 to 1814 (and again briefly in 1815). While he accomplished many things ...

The book, published in 1838, 23 years after Napoleon's death in exile, is a compilation of aphorisms Balzac attributed to France's former emperor. The author wrote in a letter to Ewelina Hańska ...

During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...

Soon after, he more or less promised to make France great again and declared himself emperor. Without wanting to comment on the relative pluses and minuses of Napoleon III’s reign, I can only ...

In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery legal again in the French colonies. Napoleon's efforts to restore slavery meant that the abolitionist campaign would help to undermine Napoleon's ...

WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you ... western border of the Russian empire to discuss peace with the Emperor of France. To signify their equal status, they met on a raft moored ...

le Docteur HOLMES pour son chant si plien d'inspiration de Vive la France. Croyez, monsieur, a ma consideration distinguee. NAPOLEON. Mr. EVETETT, a Boston. Advertisement ...

French President Emmanuel Macron branded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin an "imperialist" who was trying to "rewrite history" after Putin compared Macron's proposal to extend France's ...

after the Kremlin warned him not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and drew comparisons with French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s failed conquest of Russia. In a solemn address on March 5 ...