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, ...

ON the 6th of October, 1840, a young man was brought up for sentence in one of the highest courts of Europe, before which he had been tried, and by which he had been found guilty of one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although The Empress is primarily defined by the life of Elizabeth (Devrim Lingnau) in the Austrian royal court, the political landscape also remains a crucial subplot in Season 2. Nephew to the ...