And then, as he’s negotiating with the English, Napoleon whines, “You think you’re so great just because you have boats!” Suddenly, Bonaparte isn’t even a boy-king.

Guests can view items owned and used by Bonaparte, such as his desk while in exile on St. Helena, and other items from the Napoleonic era including a monumental portrait of Napoleon before the ...

There are moments in “Napoleon,” Ridley Scott’s eagerly anticipated portrait of the legendary military leader and French emperor, when it looks as if it was conceived by Jacques-Louis David ...

Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps Kehinde Wiley / Brooklyn Museum On the right: The painting it’s based on, the famous Bonaparte Crossing the Alps(1800) by Jacques-Louis David.

“Napoleon” (2023) opens with an idea written in the shades of the French tricolor: “The people are driven by misery into revolution … and brought back to misery by revolution.” This cyclic statement ...

Napoleon Bonaparte did a lot, but he didn’t quite do it all. He did not, for example, fire a bunch of cannons at the Egyptian pyramids. Does it matter that Ridley Scott’s Napoleon includes a ...