A six-bedroom mansion in the upmarket London neighbourhood of Mayfair where exiled French emperor Napoleon III was entertained in the mid 19th century is up for sale. The grand five-storey Georgian ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

The five-story London residence is the former home of late British Foreign Secretary James Harris, the 3rd Earl of Malmesbury.

The first French consular agency was opened in 1854 when Lionel de Moreton Charbrillan, close friend of emperor Napoleon III was sent to Melbourne within the first years of the Second French Empire.

Democracies are vulnerable political systems. Democratic governments have frequently given way to authoritarian regimes, and ...

In the 19th century, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, a Parisian official with no architectural background, revamped the city at the request of Emperor Napoleon III. Haussmann assumed the role ...

set beside Maximilian upon that throne by the Emperor Napoleon III of the French; at 26 a distracted woman, kneeling before Napoleon III, begging him to deliver her husband from the revolted ...

Local residents have expressed a cautious optimism after a number of regeneration projects are expected to be delivered in 2025 ...