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Sotheby’s Paris is set to auction over 100 Napoleonic artefacts, including his iconic bicorne hat, personal effects, and love ...
The auction — aiming to make in excess of 7 million euros ($7.5 million) — is a biography in objects. The centerpiece is Napoleon’s iconic bicorne hat, the black felt chapeau he wore in battle — with ...
The Hollywood epic “Napoleon” exposed the legendary emperor to a new generation. Now over 100 relics are on display in Paris ...
Britain called on Wednesday for reform of the European Convention on Human Rights, amid growing domestic criticism that it ...
Spanish interest in the region picked up when Russia looked to settle in the Californias in the mid-18th century. While ...
Among the star lots is Napoleon’s iconic bicorne hat, crafted by his official hatmaker Poupard, estimated at between 500,000 ...
Actor Eileen Atkins (''The Crown,'' ″Doc Martin'') is 91. Country singer Billy ''Crash'' Craddock is 87. Singer Eddie Levert of The O'Jays is 83. Actor Joan Van Ark is 82. Actor Geoff Pierson ...
As the president prepares to host Les Mis at the Kennedy Center, a Hugo biographer imagines the French author’s perspective.
Napoleon BBQ has never shied away from waving the Canadian flag. It first strung up a Maple Leaf outside its plant on the outskirts of Barrie, Ont., in the 1980s, and the flag has become part of ...
PARIS, May 5, 1921 (UP) - Tattered banners that fluttered over Napoleon's "Old Grumblers" as they marched from victory to victory, floated with the tri-color today over a new generation of soldiers.