The Latest Breaking News from Napoleon III

In 1867, the world’s most powerful statesmen, including Austria’s Emperor Franz Josef, France’s Napoleon III and US secretary of state, William H. Seward, petitioned the Mexican government to spare the life of a condemned man.

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

The French interior minister says French authorities in New Caledonia have regained full control of their Pacific territory’s capital after two weeks of unrest that left seven people dead

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