Paul Ferrandi, director of Corsica House in Paris, says: “Next to Jesus Christ, Napoleon Bonaparte is the most written-about subject in the world.” The merchandisers are busy, too. A bottle of ...

On December 2, 1804, the great and good of Paris gathered in Notre-Dame Cathedral to witness the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte and the birth of the French Empire. It’s a moment immortalized ...

If Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, as Wellington is supposed to have said, it may have been lost by Napoleon’s map-makers. A printing error left the ...