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It was here that items like sorbet and coffee became popular in Paris, making it essentially the city’s first and oldest café. The establishment is no stranger to out-of-towners—Napoleon ...

Napoleon was a brilliant military general ... and was laid to rest in honour under a golden dome. A Paris court orders a medical examination of the French actor accused by two women of sexual ...

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A hat belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte when he ruled France in the 19th Century has been sold for €1.9m ($2.1m; £1.7m) at auction in Paris. The bicorne black beaver felt hat was valued between ...

Once ashore, only the King’s army would stand between Napoleon and Paris. Six days after landing in France, he confronted a regiment of infantry ordered to bar his way. Napoleon advanced alone ...

Why all of the greenery? In 1850, when Napoleon III reconfigured Vieux Paris into the elegant city we know today, he tapped George-Eugène Haussmann to construct statement-making boulevards and ...