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Grasse (37), France (1015),
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Napoleon road (3).
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Inga
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On March 1st of 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte landed on a white sandy beach on France's southern shore of the Mediterranean from 10 months exile on the Island of Elba with a rag-tag fleet of seven boats and 1,200 loyal soldiers. The people of France were dissatisfied with King Louis XVIII, and Louis had stopped paying the annual 2 million Francs the former Emperor had accepted for his "retirement stipend". Within a week, faster than news could travel, the returned Emperor Napoleon and his men marched across the French Alps to Grenoble, then to Paris. The little colonel now returned Emperor ruled for another 100 days before his final defeat at Waterloo after reinvading Belgium (See Waterloo).
The road from the French coast to Grenoble followed by the returning warrior king and his men is now famously known as the Route Napoleon or Napoleon road. French national road N85. It was designated the Route Napoleon as a scenic touring road in 1932.
He passed through Grasse on 2 March 1815, but didn't have time for vacationing. Nevertheless, this fact is mentioned in all tourists' brochures, and a bar, hotel and road named after Napoleon. |
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24 June 2008 |
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