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Hundred Days
The days between March 20, 1815, when Napoleon reached the
Tuileries, after his escape from Elba, and June 28, the date of the
second resioration of Louis XVIII. These hundred days were noted for
five things:
The additional Act to the constitutions of the empire, April 22; The
Coalition; The Champ de Mai, June 1; The battle of Waterloo, June 18;
The second abdication of Napoleon in favour of his son, June 22.
He left Elba February 26; landed at Cannes March 1, and at the
Tuileries March 20. He signed his abdication June 22, and abdicated
June 28.
The address of the Count de Chambord, the prefect, begins thus: “A
hundred days, sire, have elapsed since the fatal moment when your
Majesty was forced to quit your capital in the midst of tears.” This is
the origin of the phrase.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Hundred Days from Infoplease:
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