LIKE Cæsar, like Charlemagne, his truest prototypes, Napoleon was a myriad-minded man. No less great as an administrator than as a soldier, he was a keener diplomat than any minister of the powers ...

ANOTHER CAESAR—Alfred Neumann—Knopf ($3). Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian ...

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, partakes of the spirit of the times. The so-called ...

Plunder. By Cynthia Saltzman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 336 pages; $30. Published in Britain as “Napoleon’s Plunder and the Theft of Veronese’s Feast”; Thames & Hudson; £25 IN SEPTEMBER 1797 Napoleon ...