As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

Why go? Corsica, a traveller's paradise, is the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, specifically in the island's capital of Ajaccio. It is filled with elegant, ancestral houses, Tuscan-like beauty, ...

Why go? Corsica, a traveller's paradise, is the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, specifically in the island's capital of Ajaccio. It is filled with elegant, ancestral houses, Tuscan-like beauty, ...

IF THE tremendous accumulation of books about Napoleon seems an argument against reading another, it is an even stronger argument against writing one. Emil Ludwig’s “Napoleon, the Man of Destiny” is a ...