Ever watched a film about how important bureaucratic reforms are devised? Ever wanted to? Hopes were high among a certain type of nerd that a Hollywood blockbuster out this week would provide just ...
LORREZ-LE-BOCAGE, France (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Napoleon led France on Europe's battlefields, his great-great-grand nephew is fighting his own, more modest battle for a seat in the French ...
WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - Kings and commoners gather at Waterloo this week to mark the battle's bicentenary in a show of European unity not seen for a major anniversary at the site since history ...
I can’t think of any two people more prominent in the minds of French citizens than the Virgin Mary and Emperor Napoleon. And they share an important date: August 15 – when it’s believed she ascended ...
A real-time strategy game that takes place two centuries after the beginning of the Napoleonic wars. Advertisement A real-time strategy game that takes place two centuries after the beginning of the ...
In 1813, Napoleon faced the full force of the Coalition at Leipzig. Outnumbered and surrounded, he gambled everything in a battle that would decide the fate of Europe ...
For such a famed historical figure, Napoleon has made only fleeting appearances in movies since Abel Gance’s 1927 silent film. Stanley Kubrick had grand designs for a Napoleon epic that went unmade.
France wants to go to war with Russia, or so it seems. Perhaps the French President Emmanuel Macron imagines himself Napoleon reincarnated in his determination to make the continent a Weltmacht.
Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow became a brutal, slow-motion disaster that shattered the largest army Europe had ever seen.