Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general and emperor of France from 1804 to 1815. ... as the couple had a son—Napoleon II, King of Rome—on March 20, 1811.

Meanwhile, the former king settled in Vienna, welcomed by the Austrian Emperor Francis I. He ignored Napoleon’s requests to live in Paris and refused to use his name in favor of the aforementioned ...

In 1804, Bonaparte crowned himself the Emperor of France, a little under 10 years after the French had beheaded their last king. After he was crowned Emperor, Bonaparte began his conquest of Europe.

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is recognized as one of the greatest military commanders of all time. ... Gustavus Adolphus was king of Sweden between 1611-1632 and helped put Sweden on the map.

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic ...

Later, Bonaparte had affairs with actors Marguerite-Joséphine Georges in 1787-1867 and Catherine-Joséphine Duchesnois in 1777-1835, as well as with Adèle Duchâtel — 1782-1860, the wife of an ...

The life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte do not seem like a laughing matter. Watching director Ridley Scott’s new historical epic about the infamous Frenchman, though, frequent snickering or the ...

The Duellists (1977) Paramount. Napoleon isn’t Scott’s first brush with that era of turmoil. Scott’s feature film directorial debut, The Duellists, also took place during the Napoleonic Wars ...

Napoleon’s throne from Stupinigi Palace in Turin, Italy, is the most expensive piece of furniture in the collection, estimated to sell for €400,000 (US$455,254).