Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.

Through his jousting connections in France he got to participate in the 200th anniversary reenactment of Napoleon’s last ...

Napoleon ordered the sabre in 1802 and kept it throughout his reign. The Giquello auction firm said on Friday it expected the ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor is to be auctioned in ...

Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to ...

There are few war memorials to those who died fighting Napoleon. What, then ... the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution. Peter Marshall - Down with the Ox Tax! Peter Marshall: Down ...

This death inflamed his imagination and in his epic poem ‘Il 5 Maggio’ he mused on Napoleon’s legacy and how the French emperor had shaped the age in which he lived. According to the poet, ‘two ...

A large portion of the objects offered at the sale originates from the former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco for the First Empire (1804-1815) and that of Christopher ... of ...