On a busy street in the centre of Montauban in southern France, with roadworks blasting the pavement nearby, there is a spot earmarked for a new statue of France's best-known dictator. Once Europe's ...

In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte seemed unstoppable after conquering Egypt—until Admiral Horatio Nelson struck. The Battle of the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is to lay a wreath at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte to mark the 200th anniversary of his death on Wednesday after months of debate about the legacy of the country's ...

This video explores the fate of France after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. We trace the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, ...

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Reporting from Montereau-fault-Yonne, France — Mingling with extras in historical costumes and fans who called him “His Imperial Highness,” Charles Napoleon sipped from a plastic cup and said ...

Was Napoleon a modernising reformer whose legal code, lycee school system, central bank, and centralised administrative framework laid the basis for post-revolutionary France? Or was he a retrograde ...

President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb on Wednesday, commemorating the bicentenary of the death of an emperor who overthrew the nascent Republic before expanding France’s ...

PARIS, May 5 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb on Wednesday, commemorating the bicentenary of the death of an emperor who overthrew the nascent Republic ...

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

The remains of French and Russian soldiers who died during Napoleon's catastrophic retreat from Moscow in 1812 were laid to rest this morning in a rare moment of unity between the two countries.