Napoleon Recaptures Paris (first published in English in 1968) describes the Revolution of March 20 which led to Napoleans victory over Louis XVIII and the recapturing of Paris. It gives an hour-by-hour account of one of the strangest days in history and of the week that led up to it.
Paris, March 19, 1815; midnight. A line of heavy carriages draws up in the courtyard of the Tuilleries, while a crowd of despairing royalists watch the departure of Louis XVIII. Within 24 hours, amid indescribable enthusiasm, Napoleon was taken from his carriage and borne in triumph to his study. The vanquished man of Fontainebleau, the exile of Elba, had recaptured Paris at the head of the troops whom the King had sent to fight him. Have you ever seen a man reconquer his throne merely by showing his hat? Its the greatest of Gods miracles, said Balzacs grenadier. But how was this Revolution of March 20 achieved, and why? a revolution which, but for Waterloo, might have given a new start to the European revolution? Hour by hour, in the Emperors army and at the Royal palace, on Napoleans road and in the streets, we can through the pages of Napoleon Recaptures Paris (first published in English in 1968) relive and understand every moment of one of the strangest days in history and of the week that led up to it.
Claude Manceron spent many years researching the documentation of the 100 days, and here produced a valuable book. It is a must read for students and researchers of French history. The book will also appeal to general readers.
March 14th
1. Not quite a spring ...
2. We've all done some foolish
things (Mācon)
3. Measures have been taken between Lyons and Paris (Paris)
4.
We are on the eve of a great revolution (Lons-le-Saunier)
5. The desolation
of the proprietors (from Saint-Brieuc to Autun)
6. Rejected by all mankind
(Vienna)
7. As in 1790 (Lons-le-Saunier)
8. Ą bas les rats! (Mācon)
9. The
Bourbon cause is lost for ever (Lons-le-Saunier)
10. You really are the son
of Alexander Dumas? (Villers-Cotterźts)
11. All I see there is a rabble
(Chalon)
12. Monsieur le Maréchal, you are lost ! (Lons-le-Saunier) March
15th
13. To our last breath (Clamecy)
14. A puff from the people, without
any effort (Chalon)
15. If one must despair of France (Autun)
16. Dialogue
among the shades (Paris)
17. I am expecting a great deal of Marshal Ney
(Paris)
18. We are only stopping for refreshment (Autun)
19. Monseigneur,
save the King! I'll take care of the Monarchy (Paris) March 16th
20. A
surprise for the surpriser (Paris)
21. The provinces loyal to the King (from
Toulouse to Caen)
22. The arrest of General Ameil (Auxerre)
23. Nothing
nobler has come from the pen of a king (Paris)
24. The fifty miles through
the Morvan (Autun)
25. This event which our descendants will scarcely credit
(Auxerre)
26. I have sung my way here (Avallon)
27. Just like a dream (Paris)
March 17th
28. Gamot behaved like a spaniel (Auxerre)
29. The grand departure
of the royal army (Paris)
30. Worthy heir to Charlemagne's throne (Auxerre)
31. When the house is on fire (Paris)
32. I had only to knock on the door
with my snuff-box (Auxerre)
33. Must Blacas be strangled? (Paris) March 18th
34. But I can't count on them (Auxerre)
35. Reveille for the Guard (Chaumont)
36. You can take off your boots (Paris)
37. At last, everything is going
splendidly (Naples)
38. Delirium was in every head (Auxerre)
39. Load
twenty-five millions into ammunition wagons (Paris)
40. It is Attila, it is
Genghis Khan! (Paris) THE FORTY HOURS OF MARCH 20th From March 18th,
midnight, to March 20th, 9.0 p.m.
Claude Manceron was a French historian.
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