She was not, however, simply Napoleon’s wife. She was the Empress consort of the French and had lived an eventful life before she even met Napoleon Bonaparte. Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La ...

the empress Joséphine, died 15 years later.) The French Revolution broke out with the fall of the Bastille when Napoleon was nearly 20; he eagerly embraced the Enlightenment ideas it at least ...

What about the fabled 19th-century “Bonaparte” rum, purportedly distilled on the plantation where Empress Josephine was raised on the island of Martinique, a flask of which Napoleon supposedly ...

In the same year, after crowning himself emperor, Napoleon named Joseph an imperial prince, making Julie a princess and she, with her grudging sisters-in-law, was asked to carry the heavy velvet train ...

In her sprightly new biography, “The Rebel Romanov,” Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg.

It’s a big year for Jane Austen who was born 250 years ago in 1775. One of the ways she is being celebrated is with the ...

Today's Music—Right Now! Fantastic music by The Empress, Jon Bentley, John Ellis, Nnenna Freelon, Kevin Fort, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Dave Robbins, Rodney Whitaker, Laura Dreyer, Carloss Mena, Ben ...

Tulips and other spring flowers are blooming all around the Empress Hotel, but they’re not the only sign of spring at the Inner Harbour landmark. Roger the yellow-bellied marmot returned from ...

Josephine (Pellegrino) Schattmaier passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on April 10, 2025. She was 87 years old. She was preceded by her husband of 65 years, Carl W ...