Those dates bracket many of the most transformative events of French history: the storming of the Bastille, the execution of ...
When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left ...
His early insistence that French art remains with the French people, rather than the Vatican, for example, foreshadows Napoleon's growing insistence that his will and authority are synonymous with ...
Waterloo Uncovered, “a UK charity that combines archaeology with veteran care,” found the most recent of those, CNN notes, at ...
This week, uncover why Neanderthals may have disappeared, see an eel escape a predator’s stomach, explore an ancient ...
The Washington Post recently ran an article about the University of Delaware’s Poison Book Project. The project is a research initiative to identify, handle and store toxic books safely. You can read ...
For the Journées du Patrimoine 2024, we're off to the Hauts-de-Seine, to the Château de Malmaison and Bois-Préau, for an ...
Artilleryman, strategist, statesman, legislator… One of the things that sets Napoleon Bonaparte apart from other military ...
[9] Napoleon then opened negotiations ... The Egyptian Expedition under the orders of Bonaparte, painting by Léon Cogniet, early 19th century An unusual aspect of the Egyptian expedition was the ...