The Latest Breaking News from Napoleon III

COMMENT: Despite Notre-Dame’s return as the spiritual centre of Paris, its reconstruction is a tribute to former glories rather than a sign that France or Europe is enjoying a renaissance, Mark Almond writes

New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler communities loyal to Paris

The French prosecutor in New Caledonia says authorities have opened an investigation into deadly unrest that has left seven people dead and significant destruction in the Pacific archipelago with decades of tensions between those seeking independence and those loyal to France

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to lift the state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia

Authorities in New Caledonia implement curfew and gathering ban amid violent unrest over voting reforms. Tensions between pro-independence Kanaks and Europ...

While Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has been causing consternation among some historians, they are overlooking the fact that the historical record does actually support the film’s narrative in terms of one man taking power and shaping a new order during times of revolution and chaos.

Once crowned Emperor Napoleon III, it is rumoured that he ordered his architect to replicate the boulevard in industrial Parisian streets. Thus, the connection between the two areas was born

Questions raised over status of royal collection –the last European royal art collection still mostly in hands of sovereign

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