Christine Caccipuoti

In the 1920s, a memoir written over a hundred years earlier by Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, was published. Hortense’s life...

Every year when December 2nd rolls around I smile, because in the 19th century it was a very significant date for my favorite imperial...

[Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769. This post is my way of marking it, so Happy Birthday, Napoleon!] When Napoleon Bonaparte...