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ltmurnauThus starting The Hundred Days.
Edmund Fillingham King's book Ten Thousand Wonderful Things (1853) collected a sampling of French newspaper remarks as Napoleon approached Paris during March:
9th - The Cannibal has escaped from his den.
10th - The Corsican Ogre has just landed at Cape Juan.
12th - The monster has passed the night at Grenoble.
13th - The tyrant has crossed Lyons.
14th - The usurper is directing his course towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians surround him on all sides.
18th - Bonaparte is sixty leagues from the capital; he has had skill enough to escape from the hands of his pursuers.
19th - Bonaparte advances rapidly, but he will never enter Paris.
21st - His Imperial and Royal Majesty last evening made his entrance into the Palace of the Tuileries, amidst the joyous acclamations of an adoring and faithful people.
Edmund Fillingham King's book Ten Thousand Wonderful Things (1853) collected a sampling of French newspaper remarks as Napoleon approached Paris during March:
9th - The Cannibal has escaped from his den.
10th - The Corsican Ogre has just landed at Cape Juan.
12th - The monster has passed the night at Grenoble.
13th - The tyrant has crossed Lyons.
14th - The usurper is directing his course towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians surround him on all sides.
18th - Bonaparte is sixty leagues from the capital; he has had skill enough to escape from the hands of his pursuers.
19th - Bonaparte advances rapidly, but he will never enter Paris.
21st - His Imperial and Royal Majesty last evening made his entrance into the Palace of the Tuileries, amidst the joyous acclamations of an adoring and faithful people.
