Last Days of Napoleon

He was forty-five years and still felt able to cope with Europe. The errors of the Bourbons, that despite the long exile did not resign to compromise with the bourgeoisie, and the discontent of the people gave him time to act. He landed in France with only one thousand men and, without firing a shot, a new bathroom triumphant crowds again seize power in Paris.


But it was utterly defeated in June 1815 by European states-watchers had not laid down their arms, attentive to a possible French reinvigoration "in Waterloo and put back in the dilemma of abdicating. Thus ended his second term imperial short duration that has been called the Hundred Days (March-June 1815).

Before he died, May 5, 1821, wrote a memoir, the Memorial of St. Helena, where he described himself as he wished to see him posterity. This has not yet agreed on its unique blend of gruff personality broadsword barracks, the statesman, visionary, adventurer and hero of antiquity obsessed with glory.


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