Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Hewn from white marble, Pauline Bonaparte reclines ... she found comfort in the arms of a lover, the noble painter Auguste de Forbin. The two briefly ran away together to France, only ending their ...

He grew up speaking the corsicano dialect and Italian, and his name was Gaulified to Napoleon Bonaparte as he and ... friend and longtime comrade in arms Marshal Auguste de Marmont from ...

Born August 15, 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was an incredibly ambitious politician and ... The sheer cliffs of the island were heavily guarded with around 2800 men at arms and around 500 cannons. On top ...

Bonaparte shook Maryland and French society when she married Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, after a great ... who boasted that the nation had opened its arms to the abandoned young wife.

It appears on the coat of arms of Saint Helena and on the ... The island is known for being the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's second exile, following his final defeat in 1815 at the Battle of ...

Artilleryman, strategist, statesman, legislator… One of the things that sets Napoleon Bonaparte apart from other military leaders ... so he sends a comrade-in-arms named Berville to reassure his wife.

We can see black swans any day on the Swan River in Perth, but in the grounds of this chateau, which was once home of Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte ... depicted on our State’s flag and coat of ...

Parade for the feast of Mawlid, August 20, 1798, watched by Napoleon Bonaparte. Engraving by Goupil ... Politics and the bearing of arms were reserved for the Mamluks – a fighting militia ...

It was Napoleon Bonaparte who suggested to the French ... the lifting of titles of nobility, defacement of coats-of-arms of the Order of St John, expropriation of gold and silver objects of ...

The garments are “also known as ‘the Osage mink coat,’ ” says West ... s chronicle of great love and many wars, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix) signals his reign by crowning ...

This emperor definitely had clothes. Napoleon Bonaparte was known as much for his bicorn hat and long coat—and short stature—as his military prowess. To make sure all the characters in Ridley ...