Since it was ravaged by fire in 2019, France's Notre-Dame has been shielded from public view with scaffolding as it undergoes a painstaking reconstruction. But visitors to Westminster Abbey will soon ...

Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code – the Code Napoléon – took force this week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and ...

Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code — the Code Napoléon — took force last week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and ...

Why is this anniversary significant? On 5 May 1821, Napoleon died in exile, in a damp house on the bleak South Atlantic island of St Helena. Even in death, he was considered too dangerous to return to ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic Wars ...

A) Napoleon distributing the first insignia of the Imperial Legion of Honor at the Boulogne camps, on August 16th, 1804; b) Joachim Murat and Napoleon in the Battle of Austerlitz. Pair of paintings, ...