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In February 2025 social media posts, U.S. President Donald Trump shared this quote usually attributed to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." ...

To the Editor of the New-York Times: Interests of overshadowing import are culminating around Louis NAPOLEON, as Emperor of the great French nation, with startling rapidity and force. The astute ...

COMPIEGNE, 24 No'bre, 1861. MONSIEUR, J'ai iu avec le plus vif interet le discours que vous avez pronounce au diner auquel assistait S.A.I. le Prince NAPOLEON et dont vous in'avez fait l'envoi.

One showed Napoleon being crowned emperor; the other showed Lafayette on his rural estate in France, “hanging out with his dog and his daughters in the countryside,” Kramer noted. Opinion Anne ...

During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning ...

French President Emmanuel Macron branded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin an "imperialist" who was trying to "rewrite ...

"Austria wants to get slapped; she shall have it," Napoleon boasted. "If the Emperor Francis attempts any hostile move, he will soon have ceased to reign." Two weeks later, Napoleon battered the ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...