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The beauty of being an archaeologist is having the good fortune to find something on an archaeological dig that remains in a relatively good state of preservation. In various degrees, there are those who study how nature can actually help...

Marie Dentière (l. c. 1495-1561) was a French theologian, writer, and street preacher who advanced the cause of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland. Her written works were controversial primarily because she was a woman and...

Emperor Napoleon I in his coronation robes. Painting by François Gérard, 1805. Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau.

Louis XVIII of France in Coronation Robes, oil on canvas by François Gérard, c. 1814. Hôtel Beauharnais, Paris.

Jean Rapp, one of Napoleon's aides-de-camp, presents the emperor with the captured Prince Repnin-Volkonsky of Russia during the Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805. Oil on canvas by François Gérard, 1810. Palace of Versailles.

A portrait of the Murat family: Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and wife of Joachim Murat, sits in the center of her four children. The children include Achille Murat, Lucien Murat, Luisa Murat, and Letizia Murat. Oil on canvas painting...

Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress consort of the French, in her coronation robes. Joséphine and her husband were coronated on 2 December 1804. Oil on canvas by Baron François Gérard, c. 1807-08...

The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, oil on copper by Gerard ter Borch, 1648. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Jean Lannes (1769-1809), 1st Duke of Montebello, a marshal of the French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. Oil on canvas portrait painting by Julie Volpelière after an original by Antoine-François Gérard, 1834. In the Musée de l'Armée...

Portrait of Joachim Murat (1767-1815), a French marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). A daring cavalry officer, Murat served in Napoleon's Italian and Egyptian campaigns, supported the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and distinguished...