It all began with the collapse of Napoleon's Empire. Those who overcame the French Emperor were weary of re-drawing the map of Europe. And these new borderlines posed no problems until they reached ...

The storied trove of Napoleonic materials owned by Pierre-Jean Chalençon will be offered by Sotheby’s Paris on June 24 in an ...

Among their ranks were legendary figures such as Marshals Lannes, Soult, Davout and Massena, but also much less well know ...

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

The collection, amassed over 40 years, comes from the trove of avid Napoleon collector and socialite Pierre-Jean Chalençon ...

Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 ...

Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

For Nuit Blanche, the garden of the Archives Nationales awaits you for a new edition this Saturday, June 7, 2025, with a ...

From June 6 to 9, 2025, the Festival de Pentecôte in Rueil-Malmaison celebrates cultural exchanges between Italy and France, ...

Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which ...

In the end, this small band of POWs and deserters, whose strength was seen by Leon Trotsky as the chief threat to Soviet rule, helped destroy the Austro-Hungarian Empire and found Czecho-Slovakia.