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It is the subalterns and the soldiers that have done it all. I owe everything to the people and the army." The Hundred Days Declaration of the Congress at Vienna Napoleon prepares for War Capitulation of the Duke d'Angouleme Insurrection of La Vendée Murat advances from Naples Is Defeated And takes refuge in France The Champ-de-Mai Dissatisfaction of the Constitutionalists.
Under pretence that emigrants who had borne arms against France had been introduced into the Chamber of Peers, and that the Chamber of Deputies had already sat for the legal time, it dissolved both Chambers, and convoked the Electoral Colleges of the Empire, in order that they might hold, in the ensuing month of May, an extraordinary assembly the Champ-de-Mai.
He published various decrees at this place; one, commanding justice to be administered everywhere in his name after the 15th; another abolishing the Chambers of the Peers and the Deputies, and summoning all the electoral colleges to meet in Paris at a Champ-de-Mai, there to witness the coronation of Maria Louisa and of her son, and settle definitively the constitution of the state; a third, ordering into banishment all whose names had not been erased from the list of emigrants prior to the abdication of Fontainebleau; a fourth, depriving all strangers and emigrants of their commissions in the army; a fifth, abolishing the order of St.
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