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In an apparent jab at France, Russian President Vladimir Putin said later: "There are still people who want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended." French Emperor Napoleon ...

Putin was referring to the French emperor who marched his army across Russia and into Moscow in 1812 but was then forced into a desperate winter retreat with massive loss of life. "There are still ...

Responding, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that some people had forgotten what happened to Napoleon Bonaparte. He was referring to the French emperor who invaded the Russian Empire in 1812 ...

Russia mocked Macron, calling him "Micron". Russian cartoons cast him as France's Emperor Napoleon riding towards defeat in Russia in 1812. "There are still people who want to go back to the time ...

Is Caesarism – a term invented in the nineteenth century to describe Napoleon’s particular form of rule – a good analogy for understanding Donald Trump and his political project? Despite some striking ...

Following a new constitution that reduced the assembly’s power, and a plebiscite, Louis-Napoléon declared himself emperor Napoléon III in 1852 Louis-Napoleon, and thus the second empire was born.

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.