Toussaint Louverture was born a slave. He defeated Napoleon and liberated a nation. This is his story. Economy shrank in ...

Pope Francis’ tomb is made of Ligurian (Italian) marble with the sole inscription “FRANCISCUS” and a reproduction of his ...

They needed a prison for the most dangerous man in the World. Napoleon had seized supreme power in France. He’d marched his ...

The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. There, 10,000 visitors a day seek ...

Author Oscar Wilde's gravesite is a big draw, in part because of the castrated funerary statue of a flying sphinx that adorns his tomb ... a system codified by Napoleon I in 1804.