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

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.

just as Napoleon modelled himself on the emperors of Ancient Rome. Boodles gold, diamond, tourmaline and enamel Florentine Dolce Vita ring, from £6,800 Jessica McCormack yellow- and white-gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...