My experience of seeing pieces of Dhaka muslin in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was a conflicted one. A part of me ...

Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

She focuses on three women: Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, who became Joséphine Bonaparte; Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde ... In April 1793, 15-year-old Juliette was married to her 42-year ...

Tying back to historical events, another wreck from 1828 has links to Napoleon Bonaparte ... transported 12-year-old Adeline Coquelin, the niece of Napoleon's ex-wife Josephine.

Over the centuries, some of Europe’s most notable figures have stayed at one of the 50 rooms, from Napoleon Bonaparte and his ... are covered with centuries-old heirlooms and antique portraits ...

But this region is not only famous for being a tourist haven: Les Trois-Ilets was the birthplace of Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte ... housed in an old distillery in the ...

[Read more] The Musée de Cluny, Paris' museum of the Middle Ages, its program and age-old treasures Located ... During the French Revolution, Josephine Bonaparte acquired the property and it ...