How did Napoleon Bonaparte come to power?
18 Brumaire, Year VII: Napoleon Bonaparte orchestrates the slowest coup d'état in French history.An emperor is neither made alone, nor in a…
Napoleon and the Numbering of the Streets
Napoleon Bonaparte regularly demonstrated a very modern pragmatism. If our daily life owes him a lot, from the baccalaureate to garbage…
False Napoleon: Story of Madmen
The cliché is worn out. However, and as often, the stereotype settles on fertile and well-documented soil. Did the madmen taking themselves…
Napoleon Bonaparte in the Garden
In Saint Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte led a new campaign less military and more about gardening. In 1819, the surroundings of the house of…
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Louvre
The Louvre that we know today owes a lot to Napoleon. More for its arrangements than for works looted from foreign nations during…
The Bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte
The bicentenary year of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte has not yet been inaugurated as the controversy is already raging. What do we…
The Napoleonic soldiers: a badly shod army
"Speed, speed, speed". These words of Napoleon Bonaparte could succinctly summarize the essence of his strategic genius. The Napoleonic…
Napoleon at the Table: a Gastronomic Paradox
While Napoleon Bonaparte was not a great lover of gastronomy, he nonetheless was perfectly aware of the importance of the table in the…
Empire style
Inseparable from Napoleon I, the Empire style not only brings together similar and concomitant stylistic characteristics in the fine arts,…
Creation of the Bank of France by Napoleon Bonaparte
In this very young XIXth century, the moribund economy post Revolution urged the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte to create the Bank of…