You know a home is up to par when it has been lived in by a French emperor. Indeed, this newly listed London condo once housed Napoleon III and offers elegance in spades. Spanning just shy of 2,000 ...

Located in a Grade II-listed building in the St. James district near Buckingham Palace, the spacious two-bedroom flat retains period details such as high ceilings and tall windows, and has also been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. London’s Mayfair places a number of posh and historic residences on the map with ties to names like the Duke of Wellington and ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris has revealed the severely damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, which was nearly stolen last October. According to BBC and others on the 9th, photos released by the museum on ...

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, ...

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The famous Paris opera house known as the Opera Garnier is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would never see its completion.

In the early 1860s, the “puffed-up” French emperor Napoleon III conceived what he believed to be “a brilliant wheeze”, said Justin Marozzi in The Sunday Times. He would command his troops to invade ...