Naperville Public Library celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th birthday by offering suggestions for books they think the author ...

The 2025 record price for Napoléon Louis Eugène Bonaparte was for Imperial Prince as flag bearer of the Guard Plaster The 2022 record price for Napoléon Louis Eugène Bonaparte was for Staff Officer on ...

As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — an exceedingly rare chance to own a property entwined with the Bonaparte ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...