May 5th marks 200 years since the death of Napoleon Bonaparte: France's Emperor, military genius, generally revered as a national hero. But Clovis Etchiandas, a tour guide, won't be celebrating those ...

Napoleon was one of the most powerful men in history, but also one of the strangest. From a thousand-rabbit attack to the bizarre fate of his most private body part, history has a very weird side. In ...

I recently finished reading Napoleon Bonaparte England's Prisoner:The Emperor in Exile: 1816 -21, by Frank Giles, which I thoroughly enjoyed. At the end of it I was feeling pity for Napoleon who has ...

The speaker is one of the Directory, the committee that ruled France in the years after the Reign of Terror, who finds himself inconvenienced by an early morning coup d’etat. It’s a line worthy of ...