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

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments ... "This arrest is one of the events that will define Napoleon’s reign, at a political and religious level," Jean ...

Paris (AFP) – A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past ...