When French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte decided to divorce his wife Joséphine in 1809, he initiated a public spectacle that devasted his consort of 13 years. Under intense political pressure to plan ...

After a coup d'etat of the French government in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte began his conquest of Europe. By 1804, Bonaparte had made himself the emperor of France and was quickly amassing power.

A pair of pistols owned by Napoleon Bonaparte have sold for €1.7m (£1.4m). They were dubbed "the pistols that might have changed the course of history" because after the first abdication of the ...