What shaped Napoleon? Read on to find out. The second son of Corsican rebels Carlo and Letizia, Napoleone di Buonaparte entered the world on 15 August, 1769, a mere year after the French purchased ...

A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his ... through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his ...

and images of ancient Egypt became fashionable features of European art and architecture. Europe's Egypt obsession led to its first museums of archaeology Goaded on by Napoleon's savant ...