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A painting of Napoleon.

The many faces of Napoleon . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

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This illustration depicts six of Calais’ richest citizens pleading for their lives.

Medieval Stalingrad: why the siege of Calais was so critical in the Hundred Years’ War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An older man sitting against a desk, looking towards the camera.

Jonathan Sumpton on the Hundred Years’ War: “It was Joan of Arc who persuaded the French that they could win” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was

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The history of Paris: Romans, Renaissance and Revolution

Hitler and French Marshal Henri-Phillipe Petain

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A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy

Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

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Ridley’s Scott’s Napoleon trailer: a historian reacts

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What should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly

Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What was the Children’s Crusade, and did it actually happen?

Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?