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Route Napoléon
- Napoleon Bonaparte, who had been exiled on the Island of Elba in 1814, decided to return to the forefront of French political life.
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A year later, on 1st March, he disembarked at Golfe Juan and set off, accompanied by a handful of his followers, to recover his title.
He chose to reach Lyons over the mountains, so as to avoid meeting resistance in royalist towns.
- So the Route Napoléon is the stretch linking Golfe Juan to Grenoble, via Grasse, Digne and Gap. He managed to cover 324 km.
in 6 days, and on 20 March he reached the Tuileries, as planned.
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