He's one of the world's most famous Frenchmen, but France is divided over whether the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte should be marked in any way. Here's why.
French President Emmanuel Macron will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on Wednesday despite calls to boycott the late emperor over his record on slavery.
A pair of boots worn by Napoleon during his final exile on St. Helena sold in Paris on Friday for €117,000 ($128,000) - more than twice the initial estimate.
Tucked away on a side street near the Corsican home where Napoleon Bonaparte was born, a mini museum invites young minds to relive the French emperor's story -- through scenes painstakingly built from hundreds of Playmobil figurines.
Visitors to the Army Museum in Paris are being treated to the rare sight of two taxidermists at work restoring a stuffed horse - the last one ridden by Napoleon Bonaparte.
US billionaire and francophile Christopher Forbes' collection of artifacts from the life of Napoleon III and Napoleon Bonaparte's wedding certificate went under the hammer over the weekend, drawing numerous buyers and museums, French auction house Osenat said Sunday.
The certificate from Napoleon Bonaparte's secret religious wedding to Josephine in 1804, eight years after their civil marriage, will go under the hammer in March, the French auction house Osenat said Monday.
Fifty bottles of wine, four ducks, and a roasting pig: the feast of food and drink provided to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on Saint Helena was revealed Wednesday in a document auctioned in Britain.
Thursday marks the 200th anniversary since Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. But even two centuries on French opinion is still divided over the former Emperor the English called "Boney".
As Europe marks 200 years since Napoleon's French army was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, we've pulled out a few of the more quirkier facts about him including, perhaps the real reason why he was known as the “little corporal”.
Two hundred years after the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon is still under attack in Britain, where the image persists of a military genius consumed by a fanaticism comparable with Hitler or Stalin.
Thousands of spectators looked on on Sunday as Napoleon Bonaparte made a dramatic return to France, landing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur, from where he is expected to make his way to Paris and then on to Waterloo.
The battlefields of Waterloo in Belgium will resonate to a huge sound-and-light show on June 18th to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat at the hands of British and Prussian forces, organizers have announced.
A colourful new exhibition about French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is opening in London on Thursday, showing how artists and cartoonists shaped the way the British perceived "The Little Corporal".
Napoleon's admirers will be able to carry his DNA on their wrists after a Swiss company announced Tuesday its plans to sell watches containing a fragment of the emperor's hair.
A South Korean chicken tycoon has spoken out about why he paid $2.2 million for Napoleon's hat, saying he can relate to many aspects of Napoleon's life.
Napoleon and Josephine’s marriage licence fetched a whopping €437,500 at auction on Sunday, one more remarkable happening in one of the world’s greatest love stories.
"Napoleon" returned to the Italian island of Elba on Sunday as part of a historical re-enactment to mark the 200th anniversary of the defeated French emperor's exile. He was joined by hundreds of enthusiasts from across Europe.
A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other "priceless" artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said on Tuesday.
A 19th century French guillotine that was used to chop off a few heads over the years will go under the hammer in France on Thursday. And yes, it still works.
Various personal items, including a sweat-stained nightshirt, belonging to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte were withdrawn from an auction in France at the last minute, over fears they would be taken abroad.
A historic chair that once belonged to the former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte may have been able to hold the "little corporal", but it was not designed, it seems, to hold the weight of the museum's security guard.
Thousands of history buffs in 19th-century costumes took to a battlefield outside Leipzig, Germany, on Sunday to re-enact the bloody Battle of the Nations on the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's decisive loss.
