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New virtual reality Napoleon experience a hit in Bordeaux

Connexion columnist Samantha David visited Napoléon, L'Epopée Immersive – a 'fun and fascinating' way to explore the historical events surrounding the French general

Five aristocratic titles that still exist in France today

You may think the Revolution abolished hereditary peers forever, but thanks to Napoleon, barons and dukes can be found in modern France

Napoleon letter from Moscow for sale in US for $55,000

‘He thought he had won, and was enjoying the Tsar’s wine’

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Napoleon, an ‘irritable little tyrant’? Not to us French people

The leader remains a central figure and unified France during one of its most fraught periods, say two experts, as a new blockbuster film about him divides critics

Napoleon’s bicorne hat sells for €1.9m at French auction

The sale broke the previous world record for one of his iconic hats, ahead of the release of Ridley Scott’s new film about the emperor's life this week

History of casinos in France: How Napoleon started a gambling boom

When Napoleon legalised spa town casinos in 1806, he paved the way for a thriving industry today

Urban myth or true: Is it illegal to call a pig Napoleon in France?

The rumour is decades old, we ask an historian if it is really against the law to name a pig after the French emperor

Truth or myth?: Napoleon and the story of the truncated pyramid cheese

We look into the origins of the oddly shaped Valençay goat cheese

French language: Napoleon’s ‘Old Guard’ still used in English today

A battle cry from Waterloo and descriptions of experienced soldiers - Napoleonic phrases that live on

Joséphine Bonaparte, Napoleon’s wife, was nothing if not a survivor

Her life was far from ordinary: she lost her first husband to the guillotine, built up legendary debts and wild animals roamed freely about her extensive gardens

Meet the artist behind France’s new Napoleon commemorative sculpture

‘Travel is my most important source of inspiration’, says Emmanuel Michel, whose full-length statue stands in a southern town in Occitanie

Heritage group director to receive MBE medal for Anglo-French services

The Allied Forces Heritage group helps promote the commemoration of allied services, covering not only the two World Wars, but also the Franco-Prussian wars and events going back to the Napoleonic era

Hat belonging to Napoleon and containing his DNA up for auction

A bicorne hat picked up in Germany and recently discovered to contain hairs linking it to Napoleon Bonaparte is shortly to be auctioned in London

Napoleon: Should France mark the 200th anniversary of his death?

This year marks 200 years since Napoleon Bonaparte’s death in 1821 and commemorations are dividing France

Napoléon’s family keep his life on show

Napoléon's great-great- nephew is determined to give a human dimension to the notorious emperor. Jane Hanks speaks to him at his unique museum

Napoleon’s remote island exile now open to tourists

Napoleon’s former home on the remote island of Saint Helena is now easily accessible to tourists, after the Atlantic Ocean outpost finished building its new airport.

Napoleon Bonapark

After Mickey Mouse, Astérix and Le Petit Prince, a theme park dedicated to Napoleon is being planned in Seine-et-Marne.

Grab a chance to see Napoleon’s Saint Helena uniform

Clothes that emperor wore in exile go on display – along with bicorne felt hat – for just a few days as they are very fragile

Napoleon

New virtual reality Napoleon experience a hit in Bordeaux

Five aristocratic titles that still exist in France today

Napoleon letter from Moscow for sale in US for $55,000

Napoleon, an ‘irritable little tyrant’? Not to us French people

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Napoleon Bonapark

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