A study of the great figures throughout history will reveal a few common central characteristics binding them through the centuries and continents. They all possess extraordinary talent that often ...

Ahead of his new epic, with Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon, Scott has caused anger with his comments about his lead character, comparing him to Hitler and Stalin. What's the truth of the matter, asks ...

On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized (and ...

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A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor is to be auctioned in Paris next month, the auction house said. Napoleon ordered the sabre in ...

As recapped by the BBC, other French publications also targeted Scott’s latest. The daily newspaper Le Figaro said the film could be renamed “Barbie and Ken Under the Empire,” while Napoleon ...

TODD PORTERFIELD AND SUSAN L. SIEGFRIED Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 48 color ills., 82 b/w. $55.00 A few years ...