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a ^ all mounted the tri-coloured cockade , and advanced upon Montereau to secure the bridge against a detachment of gardes-du-corps , who endeavoured to break it down . The young gardesdu-corps , unaccustomed to the strokes of the lances , fled at the sight of that corps , and two of them were taken
prisoners . At Auxerre the Count Bertrand , major-general , ordered all the boats to be collected to embark the army , which already consisted of four di-Tisions , and to conduct it that night to Fossard , so that it might arrive at one in the morning at Fontainebleau .
Before his departure from Auxerre , the Emperor was joined by the Prince of the Moskwa [ Ney ] . That Marshal had caused the tri-coloured cockade to be mounted in all his government .
The Emperor arrived at Fontainebleau the 2 Qth , at four in the morning ; at seven he was informed that the Bourbons had quitted Paris , and that the Capital was free . Thither he immediately departed . He entered the Thuilleries at nine at night , at a moment when he was least expected .
Thus terminated , without shedding a drop of blood , without encountering any obstacle , that just enterprize , which has re-established the nation in their rights , in their glory , and has effaced the disgrace which treason
and the presence of the Stranger had brought upon the Capital . Thus is verified that passage in the address of the Emperor to the soldiers , that the eagle with the national colours should fly from steeple to steeple > even to the towers of Notre-Dame .
In eighteen days the brave battalion of the guard had passed over the distance between the Gulf Juan and Paris , a distance which , in ordinary times , requires forty-five days to accomplish .
On his arrival at the . gates of Paris the Emperor beheld , coming to meet him , the whole army which the Duke de Berri had commanded . Offi cers , soldiers , generals , light infantry , infantry of the line , lancers , dragoons , curassiers , artillery , all came to meet their General , whom the choice of the
people and the wish . of the amiy had raised . to the . empire , and the tricoloured cockade was mounted by each soldier , who had it in Ins knapsack . They nil trod under foot that
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white cockade which tor twent y-five years had been . the rallying point of the enemies of France and of the people . The 21 st , at one in the afternoon , the Emperor reviewed , all the troops which had
composed the army ot Paris .- The whole Capital witnessed the seniiments of enthusiasm and attachment which animated those brav e soldiers . All had re-conquered their countvy I All were delivered fro m oppression 1 All had found again , in the national colours , the
remembrance of all those generous sentiments which have always distinguished the French nation . After the Jbsmperor had passed along the ranks , the whole of the troops were ranged
in square battalions . " Soldiers / * said the Emperor , " I am come with 600 men into France , because I depended upon the love of the people and upon the remembrance of old soldiers . I have not been
deceived in my expectation I Soldiers I thank you- The glory of my enterprize is all for the people and for you ! My glory consists in having you known and respected . " ¦ Soldiers , the throne of the Bourbons was unlawful , because it was
raised by the hands of strangers , because it had been proscribed by the will of the nation , expressed in all our national assemblies , because , in fine , it secured the interests of only a small number of proud men , whose pretensions are opposed to our rights .
Soldiers , the imperial t throne can a # one secure the rights of the people , and above all , the first of our interests , that of our glory . Soldiers , we goto drive from our territory the princes , auxiliaries of the Stranger . ( Nous allons marcher pour chasser dn tew 1 ' toire ces princes auxilliares de letran *
ger . J The nation will not only second us with their wishes , but will even follow our impulse . The French people , with . us y self , we depend up on you . We will siot interfere with the concerns of foreign nations , but woe be to them who interfere with our s . This discourse was received w » u the acclamations of the people and tne ¦
soldiers . The next moment , General Can * bronne and the officers of , the gw * of the battalion , of the Isle of . J > i »* appeared with the old eagles ofu * £ yard . The Emperor con turned »
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£ 32 .. Napoleon ' s Return mid Resumption .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/32/
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