A medieval French castle dripping with history — and possibly Napoleon’s hidden gold — is for sale, asking $3.8 million.

He also posted them on X moments later (archived): Many people recognized the passage as a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, the first emperor of France. It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to establish an empire in the East was crushed in 1799 at the Siege of Acre by Ahmed Jazzar Pasha. On 20 May 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte lifted the siege of the city of ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

The most commonly cited French version of the quote is Celui qui sauve sa patrie ne viole aucune loi - He who saves his country, breaks no law. Did he really say it? Napoleon was a quotable kind ...

He even orders the dimensions of the frame. TULARD: From the very beginning Napoleon gave himself an image. He created his own history. From his first triumphs, Bonaparte understood that it’s ...

Dr. Lloyd Kramer, a history professor, drew parallels between Lafayette's resistance to Napoleon and the current political climate in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Lafayette ...

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 ...