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the 5 th demanded to march at the head of the division , which should cover Grenoble . They began their march amidst a crowd of inhabitants which increased every moment . Vizille was distinguished by its enthusiasm . " This is the birth-place of the Revolution T said those brave
people , - " we are the first who have dared to reclaim the privileges of men . It is here that French liberty revives , arid that France recovers her honour and her independence . '' The Emperor , notwithstanding his fatigue * determined , the same night , to enter Grenoble . Between Vizille
and Grenoble , the young adjutantmajor of the 7 th of the line arrived to announce that Colonel Labedoyere , deeply wounded by the dishonour which had covered France , and influenced by the most noble sentiments , had withdrawn from the division of
Grenoble , and was quickly advancing with his regiment to meet the Em - peror . Hainan hour after , that brave regiment arrived , to double the force of the Imperial troops . At nine that night , the Emperor entered the suburbs of * .
The troops had been ordered to reenter Grenoble , and the gates of the town were shut . The ramparts to defend that town were occupied bv the 3 d regiment ( du , genie ) , consisting of 52000 tappers , aJl veterans covered
with honourable wounds ; by the 4 th of the artillery of the line , the same regiment of which , twenty-five years before , the Emperor had been appointed captain ; by the two other battalions of the 5 th-of the line ; by the 1 lth of the line and the
faithful hussars of the 4 th . The national guard and the whole population of Grenoble had been posted in the rear of the garrison , and all made the air resound with the cry of " Long Jive the Emperor ! " ( vive VErnpereur I ) They forced open the grates , and at ten o ' clock at night the
Emperor entered Grenoble , in the midst of an army and a people animated by the most lively enthusiasm . The next day , the Emperor received the address of the municipality and of all the authorities of the department . The language of the military , chiefs and of the magistrates "was the same All declared that princes imposed by a foreign force r it —*~ -m n - ¦ ' ¦ ii - i n / r ^ Lgi . i - ' v ' , _ - * i * Blank in the Mbntteur .
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were not lawful princes ; and that they were not bound by any engagement made with princes whom the nation did not approve . At two o ' clock the Emperor
reviewed the troops in the midst of the population of the whole department , crying out , " Down with the Bourbons 1 Down with the enemies of the people I Long live the Emperor and a
government of our choice ! " The garrison of Grenoble immediately after proceeded by a forced march upon Lyons . One remark could not escape our observation . In the twinkling of an eve , 6000 men mounted the national
cockade with each it was a cockade old and well-worn , for when ^ they took off their tri-coloured cockade , they had hjdden it at the bottom of their knapsack . Not one was purchased at little Grenoble . "It is the same , " said they , passing before the Emperor , ** it is the same that we
wore at Austerlitzl" " This , " said others , ** we had at Marengo !" The 9 th the Emperor lay at Bourgoin . The crowd and the enthusiasm , if possible , increased . " It is a long time that we have waited for you , " said all those brave men to the
Emperor . " We behold you , at length , arrived , to deliver France from the insolence of the noblesse from the pretensions of priests , and from the disgraceful yoke of the stranger !" The Emperor ' s march from Grenoble to Lyons was nothing less than a
triumph . The Emperor , being fatigued , was in a calash , going always a foot pace , surrounded by a crowd of peasants singing airs which expressed all the noble sentiments of the
brave Dauphinois . "Ah ! " said the Emperor , " I again find here the same sentiments for which , twenty years ago , I saluted France with the name of the Cheat Nation ! Yes , y ou
are still the Great Nation , and you shall be alSv ays so . " In the mean time , the Count D'Artois , the Duke of Orleans and sev eral Marshals had arrived at Lyons . Money had been given to the troops , promises to the officers ! They prothe
posed to cut off the bridge of Guillotiere and the bridge Morund-The Emperor smiled at these n ^ culous preparations . He could wo suspect the disposition of the k ? " " n ois , still less of the soldiers . Yet ne had given orders to General B * rtran «
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250 Napoleons Return and Resumption .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/30/
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