Not only had he become a great general ... windswept island lost in the Atlantic, Napoleon fought the endless boredom of his days. He gardened, read any book or newspaper he could get his hands ...

The book, published in 1838, 17 years after Napoleon's death in exile, is a compilation of aphorisms Balzac attributed to France's former emperor. The author wrote in a letter to Ewelina Hańska ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles ... Moreover, writes Roberts, Napoleon was a great reformer of government: “The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy ...

Napoleon saw that these laws changed France forever. His personal copy of them in print has just been sold. Find out more ...

At the time, many Europeans had heard of the Great Pyramids or the Sphinx ... Denon returned to France with Napoleon and quickly published a book with his descriptions and drawings, "Travels ...