The younger sister of Napoleon, Pauline Bonaparte was known for her beauty and was never shy about showing off her "natural ...

It takes an army to dress an army. The costume design team behind “Napoleon,” the epic retelling of Napoleon Bonaparte’s personal life and military career, had to think like the legendary ...

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

The collection, amassed over 40 years, comes from the trove of avid Napoleon collector and socialite Pierre-Jean Chalençon ...

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

One of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous black hats sold for ... sale set a record for Napoleon’s trademark two-cornered military dress hats. The French emperor is said to have had about 120 ...

Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait in his coronation ... British cartoonists like Gillray “manipulated size and dress to symbolically deflate a threatening military opponent, and produced ...

The 19th century got off to a fairly good start for Napoleon Bonaparte. Victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo led to a peace deal with Emperor Francis II, and by 1802 France had ...

Napoleon’s younger and favorite sibling Pauline Bonaparte steered clear of politics ... She was also notorious for wearing sheer dresses that left nothing to the imagination.