From blue coats on Napoleonic battlefields to camouflage in the trenches of Verdun - French uniforms told a story of glory, ...

People dressed in historical costumes of the French Army at Vnukovo International Airport outside Moscow, July 13, 2021, carry the remains of the Napoleon-era French general Charles-Etienne Gudin.

The return to France of the remains of Napoleonic General Charles-Etienne Gudin, who was killed in action near Smolensk in 1812, marks the latest chapter in a yearslong recovery project.

The remains of a French general killed during Napoleon's disastrous Russia campaign returned to France on Monday 200 years after his death, the result of a lengthy hunt for his grave by archeologists.

The remains of the Napoleon-era general whose skeleton was discovered in July 2019 by a team of French and Russian archaeologists under a dance floor in Smolensk, Russia, were repatriated to ...