A long-lost portrait of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte has been discovered in New York after a cleaning revealed that it was a genuine 1813 work by Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, and not ...

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Renowned early-19th century French writer and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand summed up the fraught ambivalence Napoléon has long provoked: “This man whose genius I admire and whose despotism ...

As France marks the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on May 5, his role in reinstating slavery after it was abolished prompts a renewed look at his legacy. As part of the bicentenary of ...