Napoleon abdicates

Name: Napoleon abdicates
Start: 1814
Location: Fontainebleau

1814 · Fontainebleau · Europe · Politics

The emperor abdicates and goes into exile on Elba

After the allies took Paris, Napoleon abdicated on 6 April 1814 and under the Treaty of Fontainebleau received the island of Elba to rule. The Bourbons returned to the French throne in Louis XVIII, brother of the executed Louis XVI.

State: Bourbon Kingdom of France

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