Napoleon Bonaparte, hailing from the scenic island of Corsica, journeyed from modest roots to the heights of French ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday endorsed the symbolic repeal of royal decrees that governed slavery in French colonies, ...

In December 1801, Napoleon sent 20,000 French soldiers to Saint-Domingue with one brutal objective: restore slavery in France ...

Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is under investigation over valuable statues of Emperor Napoleon ...

Napoleon was the original name of Iowa City when it was founded in 1838. Designed by Anna Barker, the sign at Napoleon Park ...

Less than a decade after the French Revolution had dismantled centuries of monarchy in the name of liberty, equality and republican ideals, France once again placed supreme authority in the hands of a ...

A 5-day trip from Bordeaux to Biarritz to Dax in the country’s southwest becomes a time for soaks in healing waters, ...

The Invalides monument in Paris is best known for Napoleon's tomb. But it also serves as a home and hospital for wounded ...

The latest event in the series recounted Haiti’s fight for independence and how Haitian immigrants led to Philly’s role as ...

The women of the Revolutionary era were far more than footnotes or symbols. They had a profound impact on history.

One of the carvings may even depict French emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged A new Hollywood ...

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