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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Napoleon Bonaparte was not only an extremely victorious general of the French army, but also the emperor of France from 1804 to 1814 (and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — an exceedingly rare chance to own a property entwined with the Bonaparte ...

Napoleon Bonaparte has appeared across film and television in dramas, comedies, and sweeping historical epics. Productions in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Russia have all ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

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 ...