Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Napoleon Bonaparte

July 2024

  • Omaha Beach secured after D-Day in 1944.

    Mistruths we’re told about British history

  • This photograph shows a box containing two pistols, which belonged to Emperor Napoleon I, during the preview before their auction, in Paris on 18 June 2024. The sale, called “L'Empire à Fontainebleau”, organised by both Rossini and Osenat auction houses, will take place on 7 July 2024 in Fontainebleau

    Pistols Napoleon planned to use to kill himself sold in France for €1.7m

May 2024

  • A carving of a hanging that could be a representation of Napoleon.

    Graffiti-covered door from French revolutionary wars found in Kent

    Markings include public executions and a sailing ship chiselled into door in 1790s by bored English soldiers

March 2024

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon’s tomb - the island’s biggest tourist attraction. However, while overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

December 2023

  • Rowan Moore

    Notebook
    We don’t go to the movies for a history lesson, but shouldn’t Napoleon at least be entertaining?

    Rowan Moore
    You don’t go to this Bonaparte biopic for a history lesson or authentic settings – but shouldn’t it at least be entertaining?

November 2023

  • Joaquin Phoenix in a scene from Napoleon.

    Brief letters
    Napoleon dynamite or Bonaparte bomb? Balanced views of Ridley Scott’s biopic

  • Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon holding a telescope at the head of a line of troops

    Critics of Napoleon epic have fallen for emperor’s fibs, says film’s military expert

  • Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s film.

    The big picture on Napoleon’s history

  • Agnès Poirier

    Like the rest of France, I couldn’t wait for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Then I actually saw it

    Agnès Poirier

  • Heroic, short, callous, crumpled, Christlike: how artists portrayed Napoleon before Ridley Scott

  • Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history

    Simon Jenkins

  • Sweary, angry, honest: is Ridley Scott Hollywood’s greatest interviewee?

    Stuart Heritage

  • Hat worn by Napoleon fetches record €1.9m at Paris auction

  • Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Napoleon review – Ridley Scott’s sturdy epic only fully comes alive on the battlefield

  • Napoleon film is marred by a younger Joséphine

  • Emperor’s new clothes: why the French are ready to embrace Napoleon again

  • Napoleon review – Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic

  • Obsession, jealousies and Joséphine: has Ridley Scott’s new film captured the real Napoleon?

May 2023

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    Napoleon’s words come back to haunt us as a prison barge for our times sails in

    Tim Adams
    What ‘frightful miseries’ will await the 500 asylum seekers who are being housed in the Bibby Stockholm prison ship?
About 145 results for Napoleon Bonaparte
1234...
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：