April 12, 2024
1815 headline newspaper NAPOLEON BONAPARTE returns to FRANCE from EXILE on ELBA
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1815 headline newspaper NAPOLEON BONAPARTE returns to FRANCE from his EXILE on ELBA ISLAND - The "Hundred Days" begin - inv # 5V-123SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,the Essex Register (Salem, MA) dated Apr 29, 1815.This newspaper contains a prominent inside page headline: "Great and Extraordinary NEWS!" with 2 columns of text announcing the RETURN of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE from exile on Elba Island and his triumphant return to Paris to begin the "Hundred days". This would come to an abrupt end with the final defeat of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE at the BATTLE of WATERLOO."The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days, marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). This period saw the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign, the Neapolitan War as well as several other minor campaigns. The phrase les Cent Jours (the hundred days) was first used by the prefect of Paris, Gaspard, comte de Chabrol, in his speech welcoming the king back to Paris on 8 July.Napoleon returned while the Congress of Vienna was sitting. On 13March, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and
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