The last Napoleon felted-beaver bicorne to have come under the hammer, pictured above before its auction in Paris in 2014, went for $2.2 million to a South Korean collector. Now on display in Bonhams’ ...
A mysterious bronze death mask of French Emperor Napoleon offers a macabre glimpse into his death in exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena. The mask was cast from a mold taken shortly ...
On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized (and ...
For such a famed historical figure, Napoleon has made only fleeting appearances in movies since Abel Gance's 1927 silent film. Stanley Kubrick had grand designs for a Napoleon epic that went unmade.