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In March 1815, Napoleon escaped his island exile and returned to France, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title, Napoleon I, in a period known as the Hundred Days.

Marshal Ney, now one of Louis XVIII's commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, but, his 6,000 troops on 14 March, in Lons-le-Saulnier in an unbelievable moment, when Napoleon approached the battalion alone and called to them, "Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you wish!" The soldiers responded with, "Vive l'empereur!". (Long live the emperor!) and joined Napoleon. Ney’s reconciliation with Napoleon was a body blow to the monarchy’s hopes of retaining control of the army and with it, France, and the King abandoned Paris just two days after Ney’s ‘treason’ became known in the capital.

Napoleon returned while the Congress of Vienna was sitting. On the 13th of March, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and on the 25th of March, Austria, Prussia, Russia and the United Kingdom, the four Great Powers and key members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule.

Movie: Waterloo 1970

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VIVE L'EMPEREUR 🇫🇷 !
VIVE LA FRANCE 🇫🇷 !

QUE L'AMOUR DE LA PATRIE RÉSIDE A JAMAIS DANS NOS COEUR !

[MisterMac]

Compare this brilliant performance with the flaccid one put in by Joaquim Phoenix in the recent film "Napoleon" and it's no wonder that the latter was a total flop.