Hundred Days

Yeah.

Okay, so the script mentions that Ney was the only marshal who was with Napoleon at Fontainebleau who reconciled with him during the Hundred Days.

The Hundred Days being like that Hundred Days campaign when Napoleon returned from Elba up into Waterloo.

But I was curious, what happened to the other marshals that were at Fontainebleau and also were just, you know, in Napoleon's inner circle? So, according to Felix Markham, the choice of available generals was dangerously limited.

Apart from Murat, four other marshals, including Berthier, were struck off the list for leaving Paris with Louis XVIII.

a window because the loyalty struggles between King Louis and Napoleon, and he couldn't deal with it and just fucking killed himself, right? Some say it was an assassination.

Some say he was murdered by the coalition, I

guess the 7th Coalition at this point, if I'm correct, in order to stop him from rejoining Napoleon in the Hundred Days War.

So, uh, Napoleon reclaims Paris.

Immediately, a 12-nation coalition, the seventh coalition-

Mm

...

Exactly

... is quite an old and ven- venerable one.

And Napoleon gathers a ragtag bunch of guys, and the Seventh Coalition, uh, is like, "Fuck, he's down to the gay ones."

Yeah.

In the spring of 1814, Alexander Dumas faced a tricky choice.

Napoleon had abdicated, and Waterloo and the Hundred Days aside, the Bourbon monarchy had been restored under Louis XVIII.

Since General Alex had come from a noble family, Dumas might be able to escape his life of poverty by reclaiming his dad's title and joining the aristocracy.

To do so, though, would go against everything that his Republican father had believed in.

There are rumors that his father might actually have been a French lieutenant.

When Napoleon returns to France as part of the Hundred Days, Fabrice tries to join him, which doesn't really work.

He's 17 at that point, and he's kind of naive.

He doesn't speak French very well, and he's probably not someone who should have wandered too far from his home on Lake Como, which is generally true for anyone in any context of any era.

The name Metternich arouses no recollection but that of the aphorism to which in the plenitude of his power he is said to have borrowed from Louis XV, Après moi le déluge.

The career of Metternich divides itself naturally into ten epochs, the first from his birth to the embassy to Paris in 1806, the second from 1806 to the outbreak of the war in 1809, the third from the war of 1809 to the retreat from Moscow, the fourth from the winter of 1812 to the armistice of Pleisswitz, the fifth from the armistice of Pleisswitz to the renewal of hostilities, the sixth from the rupture of the armistice to the fall of Napoleon in 1814, the seventh during the crisis before the Hundred Days and after, the eighth the rise and progress of the continental system he established, the ninth the decline and fall of that continental system, the tenth the conclusion of his career.

I shall begin without further preface with the first.

Clement Wenceslas Nepomuk Lothar Metternich belonged to an old noble family located on the Lower Rhine.

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Chapter 7.

The Crisis Before the Hundred Days and After.

March 1814 to November 1815, Part 1.

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Canada's Hundred Days by John Livesey.

Part 4, Chapter 2.

Operations.

End of Part 4, Chapter 4.

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Part 4, Chapter 5 of Canada's Hundred Days.

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Alsace and Lorraine were left to her, despite the protests of Prussia.

The temporary occupation of her territory was merely the result of the alarming episode of the Hundred Days.

But an effort was made to limit her power of aggression.

In the Low Countries, a strong military state was created by the formation of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands.

The Quadruple Alliance thus confirmed seemed to place the status quo under the effective guarantee of overwhelming military strength.

There was, however, no real unanimity between the Allies.

Before the Hundred Days, such acute differences had arisen that war seemed not improbable; and at a later date the Eastern Question had been shelved owing to the obvious impossibility of agreement.

Diplomatists spent anxious hours in attempting to discover the sinister purport which they believed to be hidden under the unexceptionable language of the Treaty of the Holy Alliance.

Napoleon took Paris without firing a single shot.

That period is known as the Hundred Days, during which he attempted to rebuild his power and his empire.

But now Europe was united against him.

All the great powers had sent armies.