Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

Hot on the heels of Austrian forces, Napoleon launched a swift, aggressive strike at Bassano—capturing thousands and keeping momentum in his favor.

In 1796, at the height of the Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of French forces in northern Italy. He was just 26 years old and had never commanded an army before.

Napoleon’s relationship with Joséphine was not the Romeo-and-Juliet story often told. Shortly before their marriage, in March 1796, he was appointed commander in chief of the Army of Italy ...

THE ROAD TO GLORY—F. Britten Austin —Stokes ($2.50). On March 26, 1796, General Napoleon, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy, with a dubious reputation to maintain, arrived in Nice to ...

to the start of the Italian Campaign (1796), Napoleon vu par Abel Gance is conceived as a picture book in which the historical figures of the time (Bonaparte, Danton, Robespierre, Marat ...

Governed by the Directory, France decided to launch offensives in Germany and Italy as early as 1796. Napoleon Bonaparte, only 26 years old, became the commander-in-chief of the Italian army. He ...