The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of ...

France’s path to modernity was not clean or peaceful — it was built through revolution, terror, empire, restoration, and repeated collapse. The monarchy fell under the weight of debt, inequality, and ...

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story ...

Cutline: Anna and Watson between the portraits of Maximilian Robespierre and Benjamin Franklin on the terrace of the oldest ...

Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon veers from battlefield to boudoir, portraying Bonaparte as a caricature of masculine excess. Such sensationalism might sell, but critics maintain it comes at the cost of ...

“Napoleon” (2023) opens with an idea written in the shades of the French tricolor: “The people are driven by misery into revolution … and brought back to misery by revolution.” This cyclic statement ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

Napoleon Maddox has kept his mother’s maxim as a lifelong guiding light and traveler’s code of the road: “No matter where you go, you always have to take yourself with you.” The singer, beatboxer, DJ, ...

Known for playing Arthur Fleck/Joker in the box office smash “The Joker,” Joaquin Phoenix is starring as Napoleon Bonaparte in the soon to be released film “Napoleon.” It’ll be released in theaters on ...

The French Revolution was not a simple historic event but a long and complex process in which a number of different stadia may be identified. Some of these stadia were even counterrevolutionary in ...

The French president’s speech on the 200th anniversary of the emperor’s death combined a rebuke for a betrayal of the Enlightenment and recognition of his achievements. By Roger Cohen PARIS — ...