1st Edition

Napoleon Recaptures Paris March 20, 1815

By Claude Manceron Copyright 1968
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

Paris, March 19, 1815; midnight. A line of heavy carriages draws up in the courtyard of the Tuilleries, while a crowd of despairing royalists watch the departure of Louis XVIII. Within 24 hours, amid indescribable enthusiasm, Napoleon was taken from his carriage and borne in triumph to his study. The vanquished man of Fontainebleau, the exile of Elba, had recaptured Paris at the head of the... Read more

March 14th  1.  Not quite a spring ...  2. We've all done some foolish things (Mâcon)  3. Measures have been taken between Lyons and Paris (Paris)  4. We are on the eve of a great revolution (Lons-le-Saunier)  5. The desolation of the proprietors (from Saint-Brieuc to Autun)  6. Rejected by all mankind (Vienna)  7. As in 1790 (Lons-le-Saunier)  8. À bas les rats! (Mâcon)  9. The Bourbon cause is lost for ever (Lons-le-Saunier)  10. You really are the son of Alexander Dumas? (Villers-Cotterêts)  11. All I see there is a rabble (Chalon)  12. Monsieur le Maréchal, you are lost ! (Lons-le-Saunier)  March 15th   13. To our last breath (Clamecy)  14. A puff from the people, without any effort (Chalon)  15. If one must despair of France (Autun)  16. Dialogue among the shades (Paris)  17. I am expecting a great deal of Marshal Ney (Paris)  18. We are only stopping for refreshment (Autun)  19. Monseigneur, save the King! I'll take care of the Monarchy (Paris) March 16th  20. A surprise for the surpriser (Paris)  21. The provinces loyal to the King (from Toulouse to Caen)  22. The arrest of General Ameil (Auxerre)  23. Nothing nobler has come from the pen of a king (Paris)  24. The fifty miles through the Morvan (Autun)  25. This event which our descendants will scarcely credit (Auxerre)  26. I have sung my way here (Avallon)  27. Just like a dream (Paris)  March 17th  28. Gamot behaved like a spaniel (Auxerre)  29. The grand departure of the royal army (Paris)  30. Worthy heir to Charlemagne's throne (Auxerre)  31. When the house is on fire (Paris)  32. I had only to knock on the door with my snuff-box (Auxerre)  33. Must Blacas be strangled? (Paris)  March 18th  34. But I can't count on them (Auxerre)  35. Reveille for the Guard (Chaumont)  36. You can take off your boots (Paris)  37. At last, everything is going splendidly (Naples)  38. Delirium was in every head (Auxerre)  39. Load twenty-five millions into ammunition wagons (Paris)  40. It is Attila, it is Genghis Khan! (Paris)  THE FORTY HOURS OF MARCH 20th  From March 18th, midnight, to March 20th, 9.0 p.m.

Biography

Claude Manceron was a French historian.