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 ...
A British ship that was once a lifeline to the outside world for St. Helena is making its last voyage to the remote South Atlantic island where Napoleon died in exile. The RMS St. Helena's route for the last three decades is being phased out ...
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, ...
Napoleon's last home on St. Helena is re-created for Paris exhibition
France's national army museum Les Invalides has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years, bringing furniture and belongings from the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena to central Paris for the first time since he was exiled there 200 years ago. The exhibition ...
