With the Ridley Scott-directed biopic approaching its theatrical release, the true story of Napoleon is getting new attention from people worldwide. Who was Napoleon? What age was he when he died? And ...

A FEW years ago a commonplace attempt at burglary in the house of a certain Marquise d’Orvault led to the arrest of a young workman named Schumacher, and his trial. French justice seems to take ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." French General Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the world’s greatest military leaders who became the first ...

On the morning of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was full of catastrophic confidence. His seventy-three thousand troops were camped on a ridge near a tavern called La Belle Alliance. His ...

When I noticed that Aug. 15 is Napoleon’s 253rd birthday, I recalled a dinner I had several years ago with an elderly surgeon. He had amassed a remarkable collection of medical historical artifacts, ...

Mr. Mazower is a professor of history at Columbia. “History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief ...

One of history's greatest military commanders—the man who conquered most of Europe, who survived countless battles and political conspiracies—was utterly defeated by an army of fluffy bunnies.

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

Let’s get this out of the way up front: Napoleon Bonaparte was not short. Most contemporary sources put him at about 5-foot-6, typical of the average 19 th-century Frenchman. He earned that apocryphal ...

Josephine Bonaparte was a woman with strength, elegance, and an unknowable nature that proved an irresistible combination for the French emperor Napoleon. In researching the role for Ridley Scott’s ...

Emily co-hosts a celebrity interview podcast called "How To Make It," which is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Each episode involves an interview with a famous face in an attempt to tackle ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...