Will French history be ours?

The letter, signed "Napole", will go on sale at auction on Sunday, the day after the funeral of Pope Francis who died this week. Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments ...

"It was without my orders and against my will that the Pope was taken out of Rome," the French emperor wrote. A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius ...

The letter, signed "Napole", will go on sale at auction on Sunday, the day after the funeral of Pope Francis who died this week. Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer this weekend, in a reminder of France's complicated past relationship with the ...