He was forty-six years-old, with nothing to do for the rest of his life but eat ... in the Atlantic, Napoleon fought the endless boredom of his days. He gardened, read any book or newspaper ...

Andrew Roberts is a British historian and journalist. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Napoleon: A Life, which won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography.

Denon returned to France with Napoleon and quickly published a book with his descriptions and drawings, "Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt." That was not enough for Denon, though, who pushed for ...