. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. ron cage, surrendered his entire was impossible to resist the force of popular opinion, hesaid. From Lyons the emperor, at the head of what wasnow the French army, passed by Dijon, Autun, Avallon, andAuxerre, to Fontainebleau, which he reached on March19th. The same day Louis XVIIL fled from Paris. The change of sentiment in these few days was wellillustrated in a French paper which, after Napoleons re-turn, published the following calendar gathered from theroyalist press. February 25.— The exterminator has signed a treatyoffensive and defensive. It
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. ron cage, surrendered his entire was impossible to resist the force of popular opinion, hesaid. From Lyons the emperor, at the head of what wasnow the French army, passed by Dijon, Autun, Avallon, andAuxerre, to Fontainebleau, which he reached on March19th. The same day Louis XVIIL fled from Paris. The change of sentiment in these few days was wellillustrated in a French paper which, after Napoleons re-turn, published the following calendar gathered from theroyalist press. February 25.— The exterminator has signed a treatyoffensive and defensive. It is not known with whom. February 26.— The Corsican has left the island ofElba. March i.—Bonaparte has debarked at Cannes witheleven hundred men. March 7.— General Bonaparte has taken possession ofGrenoble. March 10.—Napoleon has entered Lyons. March. 19.— The emperor reached Fontainebleau to-day. March 19.— His Imperial Majesty is expected at theTuileries to-morrow, the anniversary of the birth of theKing of BEFORE WATERLOO. After a lithograph by Charlet. 270 RULER OF THE ISLAND OF ELBA 271 Two days before the flight of the Bourbons, the followingnotice appeared on the door of the Tuileries: , The einperor begs the king to send him no more sol-diers; he has enough. What was the happiest period of your life as em-peror? OMeara asked Napoleon once at St. Helena. The march from Cannes to Paris, he replied im-mediately. His happiness was short-lived. The overpowering en-thusiasm which had made that march possible could notendure. The bewildered factions which had been silencedor driven out by Napoleons reappearance recovered fromtheir stupor. The royalists, exasperated by their own flight,reorganized. Strong opposition developed among the lib-erals. It was only a short time before a reaction followedthe delirium which Napoleons return had caused in thenation. Disaffection, coldness, and plots succeeded. Inface of this revulsion of feeling, the emperor himself
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