No Christmas Mass at Notre Dame for the first time since Napoleon
For the first time in more than 200 years, worshippers will not be able to celebrate Christmas Mass at Notre Dame cathedral, still being restored after a devastating fire. "There won't be a midnight Mass at Notre Dame. The last time this happened was during ...
Russian Napoleon expert confesses to dismembering his lover: lawyer
In a grisly crime that sent shock waves across Russia, a prominent St. Petersburg-based Napoleon expert has confessed to murdering his young lover and former student and dismembering her body. Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France's Legion d'Honneur in 2003, was arrested ...
Three love letters from Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife, Josephine, written between 1796 and 1804, were sold for a total of €513,000 ($575,000) on Thursday, the Drouot auction house said. "No letter from you my adorable friend, you must have very sweet preoccupations since you ...
Airport suddenly opens remote St. Helena of Naoleon fame to outside world, 21st century and the flu
On St. Helena, the remote volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic where Napoleon breathed his last, big changes are afoot — well, big by St. Helena standards. In the heart of the capital, Jamestown (population 600), Constable Cowie is worried about the Christmas traffic; Craig, ...
