French emperor Napoleon crowns his wife Joséphine in Notre Dame cathedral in December 1804 in this painting by Jacques Louis David. The couple's stormy relationship ended when he divorced her in ...

While the painting hanging in the Louvre’s Denon wing shows Napoleon placing the crown over a kneeling Joséphine, that is not how David initially conceived it. As the film also rightly shows ...

Napoleon's famous crown was destroyed during the Restoration of the monarchy in 1814 but one of the forty-four large leaves, forty-two detachable berries and twelve smaller leaves was saved - and ...

In the most famous, we see Napoleon place a crown on the head of the new Empress Josephine while a reluctant Pope Pius VII looks on. In an astonishing act of hubris, Napoleon had indeed already ...