Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, ruler of France from 1848 to 1870, was “the most enthusiastic supporter of photography in all of Europe”. He stocked his libraries with countless photographs of bridges, ...

France’s most celebrated writer of the age, Victor Hugo, who famously dismissed the second emperor as “Napoléon le petit” and ...

He was widely loved and equally hated, but never dull. The life of Napoleon III offers one of history’s most colourful rides – strap in ...

How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That honor strangely enough fell upon a West Philadelphia kid, Thomas Evans, who ...

The next time you're in Paris, blowing too much money at the massive department stores Au Printemps and Galeries Lafayette, or just prowling the aisles and indulging in wishful thinking, step outside ...