Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — ...

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

Villa Orsucci, an 18th-century villa in Lucca, within Italy’s Tuscan region, is on the market. Once the home of Caroline Bonaparte, the sister of Napoleon I of France, the property spans over 3,200 sq ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Renowned early-19th century French writer and diplomat François-René de Chateaubriand summed up the fraught ambivalence Napoléon has long provoked: “This man whose genius I admire and whose despotism ...

Today it is exactly 200 years since Napoleon was narrowly defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by the combined armies of the British and the Prussians. The narrowness of that defeat (until as late as ...

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 Wars ...

This video explores the fate of France after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. We trace the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, ...

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 agreed ...

Who counts in history? Jenny Uglow faces the question head on in this vast, daunting chronicle of British life as it played out during the first modern world conflict. “In These Times: Living in ...

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 portrait ...