Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma for France, 200 years after his death in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena. Napoleon was a brilliant military ...

At this point, Americans shouldn’t need reminding that the institutions of so-called liberal democracy are in profound crisis, and that the crisis is getting worse rather than better. But if ...

He uses images to make sure that his victories in Italy are widely publicized in France. Although the Egyptian campaign was a military disaster, Napoleon was able to exploit the French people's ...

In 1800, France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic. But Napoleon will not ...

The remains of one of Napoleon's favourite generals have been returned to France, two years after they were discovered in western Russia. The one-legged skeleton of Charles-Étienne Gudin was ...

Alarmed by France’s growing power, the Prussians now challenged Napoleon, who made short work of them. "The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ...

"David sought to reinforce his views and visual art with material from the classical world." Bilal Junejo explores the significance of Ancient Rome in Jacques-Louis David's paintings.

having reconciled with France after the fall of Napoleon in 1815, still felt compelled to disengage from Europe in 2020 (Brexit), leaving a continent which under Napoleon achieved its greatest ...

One could argue, in fact, that the public obsession with charismatic political figureheads — whether in France or America or anywhere else — is itself the problem, or at least a big part of it.