How did Napoleon's focus on saving his empire after Russia leave Spain vulnerable to Wellington’s forces? In 1813, as French ...

A class which had originally formed the Roman army’s cavalry (hence the name ... precedent to an apprehensive French people grappling with vicissitudes. It should have come as no surprise, however, ...

Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, ...

Scope note The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French ...

French authorities said they rescued 107 migrants trying to cross the Channel from France to England on Wednesday. Over the course of Christmas Day, 12 rescue operations were staged along the ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday unveiled a new government tasked with getting the country’s finances under control and leading it out of its political crisis, but several key ...

The center-right orientation of the new French government roughly mirrors that of the previous one, which lasted less than three months after coming under attack from the left and the far right in ...

STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP French President Emmanuel Macron's office announced a new government on Monday, December 23, after the previous cabinet collapsed in a historic no-confidence vote.