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French President Emmanuel Macron is to lay a wreath at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte to mark the 200th anniversary of his death on Wednesday after months of debate about the legacy of the country's ...

Napoleon lauded in France as "star" of bicentennial commemorations of Emperor's final defeat to Britain and Dutch-Prussian forces Frenchman Frank Samson dressed as Napoleon takes part in a ...

President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb on Wednesday, commemorating the bicentenary of the death of an emperor who overthrew the nascent Republic before expanding France’s ...

A military dress hat thought to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the fateful Battle of Waterloo went for €350,000 ($406,000) at auction Monday, on the anniversary of the decisive battle that ...

Several exhibitions devoted to his memory have opened around Paris: at the Louvre, the Jacquemart museum and at Les Invalides, where he is buried. Yet there are no official celebrations because, even ...

Napoleon (or an actor that looks very like him) returns to France after 200 years. Photo: Jean-Christophe Magnenet/AFP Thousands of spectators looked on on Sunday as Napoleon Bonaparte made a dramatic ...

REUNION ISLAND, France (Reuters) - When France commemorates the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death on May 5, Aurelie Ramassamy will remember a tyrant who reversed the abolition of slavery ...

PARIS, May 5 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron laid a wreath at Napoleon Bonaparte's tomb on Wednesday, commemorating the bicentenary of the death of an emperor who overthrew the nascent Republic ...