Paris falls to the Allies
1814 · Event
For the first time in four hundred years a foreign army enters Paris: Tsar Alexander rides down the boulevards to cheering crowds and royalist white cockades. Napoleon, racing back too late, learns his marshals will no longer march; the abdication at Fontainebleau follows in eleven days.
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