Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte’s relatives after he lost power in France

What happened to Napoleon Bonaparte‘s relatives after he lost power in France? They could not stay in France but, perhaps...

25/08/2016

The fashion for “Egyptian” design that swept Europe after Bonaparte’s expedition was actually a revival of sorts. Europeans had drawn...

28/05/2014

Seventy years ago, interned by the Germans in Buchenwald concentration camp, the Dutch professor Peter Geyl tried out on the...

13/01/2014

The love of Bonaparte’s life was an enchanting Creole – the term then used for all white West indians –...

02/08/2013

The turn of the 19th century was a golden age of caricature across much of the northern Europe – from...

16/03/2013

The Chateau de Joux, high in the mountainous region of Franche-Comté close to the Swiss border, was one of the...

30/06/2012

Around 9PM on the evening of 4th July 1809 several hundred French infantrymen embarked in a flotilla of small boats...

04/03/2012

1302 The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs. 1652 In Rhode Island, a law was...

18/05/2011