The annual Royal & Noble Jewels auction, held on Wednesday in Geneva, concluded with record sales. The jewel that the French military leader lost at the Battle of Waterloo alone increased its starting price thirtyfold, and was acquired by an international collector
On November 12, Sotheby’s holds its annual auction of historic royal jewels. The sale will also include a diamond ring owned by the last Ottoman princess, Fatma Neslisah
The necklace and earrings that belonged to Marie Louise of Austria, Napoleon Bonaparte’s second wife, contain gems extracted from the municipality of Muzo, in the department of Boyacá
A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed
The piece has been exhibited in the Museum of Natural History in Paris since 1795 and is regarded as comparable ‘to what Tutankhamun represents for archaeology’
Once you have killed more than 100 people, it doesn’t matter if you have killed a thousand or a million, you enter the category of statesman. You do it according to a strategy, a vision and for an idea, a country
As much as Ridley Scott’s visual power dazzles in the battle sequences, spending two hours and forty minutes in the company of the intense Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the French emperor, is exhausting
Historians point out factual errors and hostile bias against the emperor in the movie by the ‘Blade Runner’ director
The signature broad, black bicorne hat is one of a handful still in existence that Napoléon wore when he ruled 19th-century France and waged war in Europe
The only luxury jeweler that still has a workshop in Paris’ Place Vendôme caters to both old money and tech fortunes
The premiere of Ridley Scott’s new blockbuster ‘Napoleon’ in November of this year will tell the life story of the French emperor and the darker side of his marriage to Josephine
The 11th-century ‘Will of Count Gundesindo’ disappeared from a monastery and showed up over a century later in Saint Petersburg