Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

The discovery of Napoleon’s 3-cm penis invites a deeper discussion about male identity and the perception of power throughout ...

According to Sotheby's, their forthcoming auction of Pierre-Jean Chalençon's collection "presents an extraordinary synthesis ...

Expected to sell for nearly £700,000, the hat is one of around 100 objects being sold in Paris via leading auction house ...

If Donald Trump could crown himself emperor, as Napoleon did, it’s pretty clear by now that he would do it. In his own words, “He who saves his country does not violate any law.” But ...

Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2, 1804, turning the French Republic into the French Empire, with a Bonaparte line of succession. He felt that this provision for continuity was ...

We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor’s exile under ... designed and cultivated by Napoleon himself and bursting with agapanthus ...

Napoleon’s nephew Louis – who was elected president in 1848, retained power by means of a coup d’état in 1851, and later crowned himself emperor as Napoleon III – seized on this when he ...

On December 2, 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. During the coronation, he received the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself ...

One showed Napoleon being crowned emperor ... But when Napoleon took a path that eventually led to him declaring himself emperor, the former hero of the American revolution could not go along.