Martin Antonenko
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(Preliminary) End Of An Epoch:
Napoleon Abdicates!
For a few days Napoleon, the militarily defeated Emperor of the French, has been sitting in Fontainebleau Castle, 55 kilometers south of Paris...:
His mood is underground...:
His Marshal Marmont...
... handed over Paris to the victorious Allies without a fight...
... because the Prussian Marshal Blücher threatened ...
... failing that, to shell the capital mercilessly and have his troops storm the hill of Montmartre...
...and then had cannons set up there.
The picture from 1870 shows the excellent field of fire from Montmartre to the city...:
Napoleon no longer has any influence on the course of events!
On April 11, emissaries from the Allies came to see him and handed him a draft treaty that had already been signed by the plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria and Russia...:
The British, as almost always, claim an "extra sausage": their plenipotentiary only signed those parts of the treaty that related to the future fate of Napoleon and his family, because Britain had never recognized Napoleon as Emperor.
The so-called "Treaty of Fontainebleau" states:
- Napoleon renounces the French and Italian thrones for himself and his heirs.
- For this he receives the island of Elba as a sovereign principality for life, as well as
- 2 million francs a year maintenance from the French Treasury, and
- 1000 French soldiers chosen by himself as a guard and the corvette that is to take him to Elba.
- His wife, Empress Marie-Louise, receives the Italian duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla with full sovereignty.
- Napoleon's son Napoleon Franz Bonaparte is his mother's heir and received the title of Prince of Parma.
- Napoleon's mother and siblings together receive a pension of 250,000 to be paid by France
Francs.
The emperor asks for the following day to think it over, which he is granted.
On the night of April 12th Napoleon attempts suicide! He drinks poison dissolved in water...:
But the dose is oversized; the emperor, who already has a weak stomach, has to vomit, excreting the poison and surviving.
On the morning of April 12, 1814, he finally signs his abdication...:
The typeface clearly reflects the desperate excitement and impotent rage that must have been raging inside him...:
After the abdication, he has his famous hat and the no less famous gray coat brought to him and goes down into the castle courtyard to say goodbye to his old guard...:
Napoleon Abdicates!
For a few days Napoleon, the militarily defeated Emperor of the French, has been sitting in Fontainebleau Castle, 55 kilometers south of Paris...:
His mood is underground...:
His Marshal Marmont...
... handed over Paris to the victorious Allies without a fight...
... because the Prussian Marshal Blücher threatened ...
... failing that, to shell the capital mercilessly and have his troops storm the hill of Montmartre...
...and then had cannons set up there.
The picture from 1870 shows the excellent field of fire from Montmartre to the city...:
Napoleon no longer has any influence on the course of events!
On April 11, emissaries from the Allies came to see him and handed him a draft treaty that had already been signed by the plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria and Russia...:
The British, as almost always, claim an "extra sausage": their plenipotentiary only signed those parts of the treaty that related to the future fate of Napoleon and his family, because Britain had never recognized Napoleon as Emperor.
The so-called "Treaty of Fontainebleau" states:
- Napoleon renounces the French and Italian thrones for himself and his heirs.
- For this he receives the island of Elba as a sovereign principality for life, as well as
- 2 million francs a year maintenance from the French Treasury, and
- 1000 French soldiers chosen by himself as a guard and the corvette that is to take him to Elba.
- His wife, Empress Marie-Louise, receives the Italian duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla with full sovereignty.
- Napoleon's son Napoleon Franz Bonaparte is his mother's heir and received the title of Prince of Parma.
- Napoleon's mother and siblings together receive a pension of 250,000 to be paid by France
Francs.
The emperor asks for the following day to think it over, which he is granted.
On the night of April 12th Napoleon attempts suicide! He drinks poison dissolved in water...:
But the dose is oversized; the emperor, who already has a weak stomach, has to vomit, excreting the poison and surviving.
On the morning of April 12, 1814, he finally signs his abdication...:
The typeface clearly reflects the desperate excitement and impotent rage that must have been raging inside him...:
After the abdication, he has his famous hat and the no less famous gray coat brought to him and goes down into the castle courtyard to say goodbye to his old guard...:
