Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code – the Code Napoléon – took force this week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and ...

"My cavalry is in tatters, many horses are dying," dictated Napoleon, the once-feared leader showing the strain of his calamitous Russian invasion, which halved his army. The rare document - dated ...

Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code — the Code Napoléon — took force last week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and ...

Original manuscripts on the Consulate and Empire that belonged to Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), one of the architects of the Napoleonic Code at an auction in 2012. (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE ...

A secret code letter sent by French emperor Napoleon boasting that his forces would blow up Moscow's Kremlin has sold at auction today for almost £152,000. Its elegantly calligraphic ciphers show ...

A taxi driver waves a French flag in front of riot police during arally in Paris on May 19, 2025 as part of a nationwide demonstration against proposed changes in how the state finances medical ...

Boney’s gay justice minister deserves to be better known in the common law world. Apologies if this month’s Magna Carta hype has already brought on a case of anniversary overdose, but there’s another ...