With the Ridley Scott-directed biopic approaching its theatrical release, the true story of Napoleon is getting new attention from people worldwide. Who was Napoleon? What age was he when he died? And ...

The Frogs have been getting uppity over Joaquin Phoenix’s depiction of Napoleon, in Ridley Scott’s new blockbuster. Their historians point out the real Boney didn’t participate in cavalry charges, ...

A FEW years ago a commonplace attempt at burglary in the house of a certain Marquise d’Orvault led to the arrest of a young workman named Schumacher, and his trial. French justice seems to take ...

One of history's greatest military commanders—the man who conquered most of Europe, who survived countless battles and political conspiracies—was utterly defeated by an army of fluffy bunnies.

Josephine Bonaparte was a woman with strength, elegance, and an unknowable nature that proved an irresistible combination for the French emperor Napoleon. In researching the role for Ridley Scott’s ...

Mr. Mazower is a professor of history at Columbia. “History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described as “our chief ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...