Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

The collection, amassed over 40 years, comes from the trove of avid Napoleon collector and socialite Pierre-Jean Chalençon ...

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

The discovery of Napoleon’s 3-cm penis invites a deeper discussion about male identity and the perception of power throughout ...

According to Sotheby's, their forthcoming auction of Pierre-Jean Chalençon's collection "presents an extraordinary synthesis ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor fetched almost 4.7 ...

PARIS, May 23. /TASS/. A sabre belonging to French Emperor Napoleon I has sold at an auction in Paris for 4.7 mln euro. The sabre was valued at 700,000 - 1,000,000 euro but a bidding war brought the ...

The sword has remained in Grouchy’s family since 1815, the year of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Auction experts estimate the weapon could sell for between €700,000 and €1 ...

Napoleon ordered the sabre in 1802 and kept it throughout his reign. The Giquello auction firm said on Friday it expected the sword to reach $800,000 to $1.1 million when it goes under the hammer ...

That novel takes place during Napoleon’s escape from exile and his return to power, a comeback which lasted a scant 115 days before a Prussian/British coalition defeated him for good at Waterloo.

France was once proud to call itself the church’s “eldest daughter,” but under the terms of Napoleon’s Concordat of 1801, Catholicism became just one of several recognized forms of ...