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 ...

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 ...