Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In her new novel, The Queen’s Fortune, author Allison Pataki delves into a “good royal drama” — one that happened over two ...

This impeccably researched, expertly rendered historical from Pataki (The Traitor’s Wife) gloriously recreates the personal dramas surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte. Following the French Revolution, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grumpy and childish: Marlon Brando as Napoleon in Désirée (20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock) Jack Nicholson, who paid £250,000 ...

The author is a former emeritus professor of history at Konkuk University. Among the memorable historical films of the past was “Désirée” (1954), starring Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando. The film was ...

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later ...

The tedium begins in 1794 when Robespierre’s reign of terror, symbolized by gambling and guillotines, ignited the French Revolution and war hero Napoleon Bonaparte was promoted to brigadier general of ...