According to Sotheby's, their forthcoming auction of Pierre-Jean Chalençon's collection "presents an extraordinary synthesis ...

What a novel my life!' – this collection reads like a vivid historical epic, unfolding across battlefields and boudoirs," the ...

A herald sword and stick used during Napoleon’s 1804 coronation ceremony at the Notre-Dame de Paris will also be sold.

The two-stone ring first gained notoriety back in the late 18th century, when French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte presented his bride-to-be and future empress, Joséphine de Beauharnais, with a ...

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

What do we know about the real relationship between Napoleon and Josephine, writes historian Katherine Astbury. The relationship between Napoleon and the woman he called "Josephine" is central to ...

What they will get, however, besides a difficult-to-place tone and the sight of a horse exploding from cannon fire, is a whole lot of Napoleon’s (Phoenix) relationship with Josephine (Vanessa ...

Katherine Astbury receives funding from UKRI's Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is affiliated with the Commission internationale d’histoire de la Révolution française. When Vanessa ...

French emperor Napoleon crowns his wife Joséphine in Notre Dame cathedral in December 1804 in this painting by Jacques Louis David. The couple's stormy relationship ended when he divorced her in ...

An engagement ring belonging to Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, went for $1.2 million in 2013. Napoleon, an outsider from Corsica who rose to rule France in 1799, has long fascinated collectors ...