The French Emperor is famous for a lot of things, but this lasting myth about Napoleon has shaped the way we see him through ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

"Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been decisively defeated at a village called Waterloo, and he was now keen to escape from his enemies ...

It comes as the President of France, Emmanuel Macron ... “Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging ...

The Emperor, therefore, is so shaping his policy as to finally fix himself in Mexico, and to make that country, by some sort of right tributary to France. Let us see then how this influences his ...

The Ephemeral Habsburg Empire in Mexico. In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maxi ...