Napoleon

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Why Napoleon, Once Larger Than Life, Now Feels So Small

“History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom…

Arts

France Scoffs at an Englishman’s ‘Napoleon’

French critics considered Ridley Scott’s new biopic lazy, pointless, boring, migraine-inducing, too short and historically inaccurate. And that’s just to…

Arts

‘Napoleon’ Review: A Lumpy, Grumpy Little Man

Joaquin Phoenix is oddly mesmerizing as the French emperor in Ridley Scott’s historical epic charting his rise and ruin.

World

Napoleon Didn’t Really Shoot Cannons at Egypt’s Pyramids

But scholars say that a trailer for Ridley Scott’s new film draws attention to the French emperor’s complex and lasting…

Arts

For ‘Napoleon,’ Finishing the Hats

Inside the creation of one emperor’s famous headwear, as worn by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s film.

World

Napoleon’s Hat Sells for $2.1 Million at Auction in France

The black bicorn hat, believed to have belonged to the 19th century French emperor, had been expected to sell for…

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