1815 Napoleon's return to power in France
205 years ago, on March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, twenty days after fleeing the island of Elba, entered Paris at the head of the royal troops who had gone over to his side. The last "Hundred Days" of the emperor's reign began. Napoleon addressed the heads of the European powers with a proposal for peace and promised that France would not expand its borders. In an effort to bring discord into the camp of the allies, he sent Alexander I the documents left by the hastily fled Louis XVIII.